The name "Rowbottom," used exclusively for the student riots which erupt at the University of Pennsylvania about this season of the year, was given them (not willingly) by a Penn student of the Class of 1913.
His name was Joseph T. Rowbottom, and the use of his name for any kind of student uproar came about because he was a sound sleeper.
Rowbottom occupied an upper floor in one of the quadrangle dormitories, and had a roommate who regularly came in late, only to find himself locked out.
At this he would set up a clamor for "Rowbottom!" and other students, awakened from slumber, would fling open their windows and echo the cry, so that the sound sleeper's name, though he had long since moved on, has been immortalized on the Penn campus ever since: It takes only the cry of "Rowbottom!" to start a fracas at this season of the year. --The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 5
Ed.--Rowbottom will not appear in Cambridge tonight, nor will Rinehart. But Walt Kelly will.
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