“RED” STUDENTS
HURLED IN LAKE FOR REVOLUTIONARY SPEECHES. (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, May 3. The ragging at 'Melbourne. University took a serious turn t-o-day. Some hundreds of the .students yesterday at-tempt,-iV to throw several . supposed (.'oniimifirsts into a lake nearby, owing to their revolutionary • peoches a:, the Varsity Labour Chib, but there v,(is ;l timely intervention of the police, who were summoned by telephone, and preventedl it.
After lunch to-day .the .-.students stormed the Clubhouse. They captured ' t'.D'oe of their fellow students who were there taking -refuge. They .carried them to a slimy lake within the grounds, and they threw them, into the lake. They then refused to allow team :o come out of the slime until th'-’v sang the National Anthem. Several of the women grad nates played a leading part in this affair, and th'.y enjoyed, the fun. Eventually the three students in the lake stood erect in the water and sang one verse of the National Anthem. The whole company joined, much out of tune, But with great gusto. Four police were present. They did not interfere,
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1932, Page 5
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