Coins Added to Missiles

"In act two, one 'Gerald Thom' a youth who is having his expenses paid through college by some unknown benefactor and who has not sufficient money to mingle with the more aristocratic students, was received with special disfavor. Coins were added to the missles thrown and jingled on the stage to the intense delight of the student body present.

"Act four was comparatively free of fruit throwing. The supply had been greatly diminished, and several of the arrested students gave up large supplies at the station house.

"A grand whoop greeted the final curtain, and among the crowd which poured out there were many who were loud in their denunciation of the attitude of the students."

Cast Given Truce on Second Night

The next evening when the initial curtain went up the presidents of the four Harvard classes appeared on the stage apology for the demonstration of the previous evening. It also appears that the actors enjoyed a peaceful evening as a reward for their arduous labors of the opening performance. That the indignation of Boston people had not yet been appeased is brought out in a Herald editorial of April 10.

"The disgraceful disturbance at the Majestic Theatre on Monday night by a company of Harvard students deserved a more adequate punishment than the fines imposed upon the half-dozen young rowdies who were arrested. When a student conducts himself like a 'mucker' he should be treated as such. No band of hoodlums in this city ever behaved in so outrageous a manner in any place of public amusement as did these 'young gentlemen' of Harvard on this occasion."

The Transcript of April 9, in its play review columns treated the case in a light more favorable to the Harvard rloters. It says in part:

Transcript Defends Students

"The truth is that, under all the excesses of youthful turbulence on itself, there was a wholesome and reasonable protest against a play that so far as it professes to represent life at Harvard College, in either the manners and customs or the large standards of conduct and character of the students there is preposterous to a comical grotesquesness. There are, none the less, enough to believe anything and everything, however grotesque and preposterous of Harvard College. By all accounts they have taken 'Brown at Harvard' as a rather unflattering picture of life there and not as the lively entertainment for young and old it was intended to be.

"It is well, however, not to take the protesting disturbances any more seriously than the play itself.