The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-11
rRMONT ACADEMY
STUDENTS "STRIKE"
winston of Four Leads Sixteen
70 Leave School.
vfRYFnINo RUNNING AS USUAL
! t.ass,sons Have Been Made by the
ys,u.,y bu, Most Of Sympathetic
Sn en- will Probably be Compelled
4, Psrnts 10 Return and Apologize,

: .W.ss academy, oi which Rev,
w4 q iaAspnt formerly pastor Of the
!, NHf.s raurrh ia THE Town, y pTins
s .aaH rrutNlng sane undrslrahl.
3. IH, week. Dissatisfaction
tu studruis al th. SaNtons
~ -frHttnu led Ia disorder that re.
n uH explosions, aud III moiv
.Ia. uual n a sAmPalNvllp strike,
oa.H- m che llrIluNs fsls Times the
IA !, 81, u.iuars
A,.ie.#f#ul u Vermont academy bays
f HplIpWs Falls Monday and the
Hu-gi,r aud psulilng rebellion
Ist 'ull ',yl snmv in believe that
Nj Ia.emt Vac lettering ga IT. last
! Hg TUESDAY iuWyNeT the heroes oi
t HH era-,1i tu H. heroic, the ~
H el d4liruri nul, and q began to
s, fHausH tie academy would cuniin,
f.4.a |HI..Hrss al the old stand
III IHs Hho had hrrn expelled, Graves,
..U Fisher aud t,leichman, when
NaI HlaI ihr trouble Was, told long
NJ HHe The food ri the boarding
il, $500. rotten the prirr of books was
Il Msh. ,hr rules were too hand, they
10 Be-. lu their rooms Al ~ o'clock
aHn evening. and . o'clock sunday |
nu.s. ,h,y had 10 do guard duty IA |
Is weather, they were not satisfied with |
uai4., gwen ~ examinations, etc, |
b3 seemed 30 think that the old acad /
nj. aa. DO q lad way, aud Il Il kept it, |
Oh, altu until commencement, that was
Lad Zoo ina, could be- expected
Investigation ~ the academy brought
AZ ne following facts; The trouble he
II Monday. February -. when one of
uUy. wa, disciplined. Several rules
NE been promulgated recently which 10
IT, uay- secuted unnecessary and unfair,
which the faculty say are for the best
n,,l,-t, of 'l, students and have TO do
nh health. scholarship and general de
Wutn' \ particularly unpopular rule
u, not Kermit the boys 10 lie IN bed
| morning, unless they are sick. II il said
! hat 'H. complaint that the food l. poor =
| ngmeut ut the Imagination and that the
Iolri l. the hest It has been for several
| ar
Aritatof, got IN their work last week.
|ul there we're somc minor disturbances.
ln SUNDAY night matters got worse. An
Instructors room IN one of the dormltor.
Z, wa, rough housed various articles
gtI, thrown about the halls. and electric
l.ght wires were cut. The guilty parties
arle auuIehpuded and at once expelled.
Funf hoy, were expelled and three or
four suspended Monday morning these
students were sent away in charge OF two :
)i the instructors, who saw them on board ..
4 tram at Bellows Falls and remained
with them until the train started. After
he train wa, well under way the boys {
Jumped to the ground and returned to
BELOW, Falls. When the other boys in
hall discovered that their fell
ow students had been sent away a large !,
elcgatiou came over TO Bellows Falls and
ave the impression that a rebellion OF =
are proportion was on. Before night,
oweyer, most of them returned to Sax
on. River. Sixteen synpathizers and the "
even who had been expelled or suspended \
tent to their several homes.
Everything is running as usual at the !
adtmy now. No concessions have been =
lda and all rules are in force the same as =
lev have been. II is said that none of the !,
,ympathizcls who left will be allowed =
return until he satisfies the faculty !.
lat he is not in sympathy with disorder :,
the kind that was rampant sunday ~
gt. Parents of most OF the boys have .,
ken the matter up and it is expected ;,
at most Of them will return in the near !,
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