Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1910 — “THE FRESHMEN” [ARTICLE]

“THE FRESHMEN”

Didn’t Belie the Term When They Wrecked Woman’s Club Rooms. v - ..Chicago, April 22.—Two hundred and fifty freshmen and sophomores of Northwestern University to-night selected the banquet hall of the Woman’s Club in the Y. M. C. A. Building, Evanston, as the field for one of the most furious .- class battles that has ever occurred at the institution. When he struggle was over the banquet hall, which earlier in the evening had been handsomely decorated, looked like the stock yards after a big day’s killing. The police finally fought (heir way into the place and separated the combatants. ,The floor was covered with the remnants of wrecked evening clothes, crushed •furniture, shattered dishes, soups, entrees and ices and a smear or two of human gore. Half a dozen of the fighters were bn the floor being nursed back to con*? sciousness, and one of them was in a jnear-by drugstore haviry* eight Stitches put in a bad gash under his eye.