New-York tribune., 1911-12-07
STUDENTS FIGHT TO
HEAR MRS. PANNHUPST
Crowds from Harvard and Rad
cliffe Storm Bratt|e Hall,
Cambridge.
POLICE WERE CALLED IN
Doors Being Fastened, Harvard
Man Picks Lock-Right of Way
Given TO Radcliffe Girls
Sufrsgette's Lecture.

by Telegraph 20 The Tribune
cambridge. Mass. Dec 6-Enterinz
through the doors until they were locked
and then lighting their way through win
5sws On the first and second stories, a
,,ob Of fifteen hundred Harvard and
rs5o1irs students eventually gained &C
rsSsr no Brattle Hall % hear Mrs. Einme-
lns Psrkhurst the English surragette,
sneak this afternoon.
The hall. designed 20 hold not more
than fve hundred persons ar the Ut
r-ost. was filed with three or four times
.ts- number. and the members OF the
Harvard League for Woman Suffrage
-.re5 On the police 70 clear IT,. A sec
-..-+ and squad Of police were sent
,,,t we're unable 20 get inside. As re-
srr- -re lecture proceeded in an aJmos-
here that approached sufocatior.
-,s scenes that preceded the lecture
arc without q precedent N Harvard s
---.,r,, The members Of the league
.-L.-s argument with the faculty over
.ba .se of q hall for Mrs. Pankhurs' $
.54-zss had created sufficient interes',
,,s,. thought. 70 var-s NJ the move, hlre1
7-.,+rz EsU. 4 crowd vas eXpecteu'
,-... M r-ovlsion was made tor q moo.
-as-r- when the time for the lect-
-. s,r-os.bed and the officers Of the
-. ,ool, charge they found l.SUo stu
80 outside. only a third OF whom. ns-
go -,a, might. could possibly be ac-
remuodated 7,5-,,4.
In -ne crowd were many haoc----s
-.-,z-s-ros- enough TO fill the hail 70
.--.,,s.or Of the Harvard men. The
,-...- 1a- -1e other sex have the right OF
--. Asa result the han filed rapidly.
--. -.s-,,e-s Of the league let the Har-
ys-d men come in until they began TO
-. -rou4 the FIRE license, which lin
& he number Of persons inside the
s,rrstrc 70 hve hundred. After nai as
80 again as that number had been
sgr+-red they locked the doors.
The Harvard men outside rased Tor
while. until some versatile unoersra au-
,-s r-ovsd himself another Jimmy al
err.ne~ and picked the lock
.e-s- that -he influx OF Mrs. Pank-
,~-s-z admirers continued unchecked
f,- some moments, until the league got
-.e door closed again. and bol-ed II this
time.
81, urdzrgradusteS could sin 2 bolt
sr5 after matching their strength with
ms sotdity Of the door. with little sue
-azs -hev loked about for some other
means Of entrance.
Harvard Men Climb n Windows.
The windows looking or the floor OF
me hall. az a height Of zen feet from
ne ground. presented q strategic oppor-
-r-i-v. The collegiars trooped around
-.s building. ard The assault began from
the rev. and 70 the Management, un-
suspec-ed quarter
The first Harvard man Aopped inside
--e hall 70 chorus Of shrill shrieks
4-.r1 The PadcliHars. on whose laps or
hands or feet they happened 20 land az
-ropeled from the window by the force
-f the crowd behind them. they entered
-oe hall
The league rallied It's forces. and ss
-.e nav invaders began 20 take posses
son n -he stage from which England
-z-.-..- -
.--~ -' s]7A7-'
~ rscsp-Lr-n ana -o-1---S --7 VS.
IL order % DO L--s u was necessary
1-h-ess-- % push co--eslans from pre-
-z-.cus perch.s on he window s---s,
nd II was done. many q would-bs in
-ad=- landing On his back outside the
hall instead OF on his face inside. as
bad ,s-r i--ar6a5
.-,. --,-5.--e ~, --s 4-s. 4oor had
-----,-. .-.. --.-..s 49,. t...s- -.--.-
a+y=4- "- ---7 o-.-
'n- -n- some one -l--T1 me s-'77
door After that me management
--e~ U- --s hands and sent Tor the