Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13
Recent Outbreaks
of Town and Gown
Worry to Harvard
Revival of Traditional Antago-
nism Reaches Large
Proportions.
BY WALTER CAMP
Special Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune
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Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
New York, Aug. 12.-It is not pleas.
ing to have to record a revival at Har.
ward of the old antagonism between
students and the .townies'-the OLD
town and gown a%ntagonism which forms
a part of the annals of every college
or university located in a small city
throughout the country.
Outcroppings of bad feelings were
first noticed a few years ago. and eases
have occurred recently indicating that
the feeling has attained formidable
proportions. Years before the intro
duction of college athletics. trouble be-
tween students and citizens of a col
lege community served as one of the
outlets for the pent-up spirits of the
young ~collegians. Usually there were
conflicts with townies and often with
the firemen. In a seaport city such as
New Haven, there were often pitched
battles between students and sailors.
The origin of the class bully at Yale
was a fight with sailors on Long wharf
in which the students wrested from
a giant sailor a huge club which was
preserved and known as the Bully
club" but with the Introduction of or
ganized athletics the ebullient spirit of
collegians had another outlet.
At the present time disturbances
came from a desire on the part not
only of the town people but the gradu-
ates of other colleges living in Cam
bridge to see the home team downed.
This, as a matter of fact, is also the
case at Yale. but in lesser degree. In
stead of the streets, the grandstands
of the athletic fields have become the
scene of conflict. e.
So serious were conditions at Har-
ward last year that the Harvard ath-
letic committee has taken drastic action
regarding the seating of spectators at
the football games to be played this fall
They propose to permit the patrons of
the games who are not Harvard men
to come TO the contest but they are to
be seated in other sections of the
stands so that the solidarity of Har-
ward stands, holding none but Crimson
sympathizers. shall not be broken OIL
disturbed.
The trouble has been pronounced
at Cambridge, where if some incidents
last year were narrated they would
hardly be believed. At Yale. football
games against certain Boston colleges
and certain other teams have devel-
oped some similar conditions. In other
universities located near the big cen
ters, town and gown feeling has also
been manifested. But it has practi-
cally never appeared at such places as
Dartmouth. Princeton and 20 on. where
the instruction is larger than the com
in which it stands.
Universities which have large gradu-
ate schools attended by alumni of other
seats of learning are liable to find bad
cropping put from time to time,
However, Harvard and other institu-
tons which are now facing the trouble
in a form more or less acute should
regard the ~;ituation as complimentary
inasmuch as it is likely to have its
basis in sympathy for the under dog
When practically every team that
to Cambridge is this sort of q
it speaks volumes for the ath-
letic prestige of the Crimson.