While Colonel Charles R. (Break-it-up) Apted '06, paternal guardian of Harvard Freshmen, wined, dined, and danced last night at his palatial mansion on Sumner Road, the hot flames of rebellion and riot swept through Harvard Yard with the violence of an unleashed tornado.
One of Cambridge's mayoral processions touched off the smouldering spark at 8 o'clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion.
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