UNIVERSITY STRIKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9150, 20 May 1908, Page 6

UNIVERSITY STRIKE.

EMPTY GLASS ROOMS AT NEW TOBK. New York, April 2. The students of New York University, 500 in number, after an hilarious demonstration, went on strike to-day because of the stringent measures adopted by the- authorities to suppress the practice of “hazing” i.e., ragging. Yesteday they ducked in the college pond a wealthy freshman who committed the unpardonable sins of wearing too loud clothes, deriving up to the university in a magnificent motor-car with a liveried servant in attendance, and generally “comporting himself in an arrogant way” towards his seniors. To-day he arrived at the university accompanied by his father and a large force of armed detectives, and threatened to shoot any student who attempted to exclude him from the university. The Chancellor held a solemn inquisition into the affair, and suspended the ringleaders in the pond episode. Immediately the students marched out of the university, singing, the wonderfullly stirring warcry “Rah, rah, rah. New York Siss, siss, siss, Boom, boom, boom, Ahahah, New York, New York!”

The authorities are at,their wits’ end, for all the classrooms are empty, with the exception of one, where the freshman sits in solitary glory.