During the war, the University was troubled by enrollment instability, which had nothing to do with riot dismissal Following the cease-fire, the threat of war with Russia loomed large, and 1000 students staged a "Save the Peace" rally near Mem Hall in in spring of 1948. The affair went off with fitting calm despite the noisesome, noisy intrusion of a bellicose minority, who shouted "We Want War."
The first major post-war riot did not occur until November of 1949, when the Princeton football team came to tow About 150 Tiger partisans started Friday night rally; 200 Harvard men moved in to break it up, only to be followed by 50 University and Cambridge police.
Police Deflated
Three hours of hand-to-hand skirmishes and general disturbance ensued. A cop car suffered three deflated tires among other damage in the melee, but the authorities were able to scrounge up enough other vehicles to book 15, all of whom pleaded nolo the next day.
The following fall was enlivened by Boston power failure, which sent about students on a river to Radcliffe blackout blast. Leverett men rumored that the world was coming to an end, partly in jest and partly as consolation to friends who had lost Bursar's cards in the Sunday night affair.
Yale came to town the next weekend, and Dean Bender made an anticipatory admonition Friday morning. Nevertheless, that evening 3500 participated a disturbance that, according to University Police Chief Alvin R. Randall, made the "Princeton fracas look like peanuts."
The arrested included ten Harvard men and two Elis, and City Councillor Edward A. Sullivan commented, "They would be clubbed if they tried it in New Haven." When the Dean's Office had collected its wits and numerous Bursar's cards, it announced the dismissal of two