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Back to your demonstrations, students and non students! After three months’ vacation—excepting the Democratic Convention—from social protest, the graduate and undergraduate activists may resume their happy designs for disturbing the peace, with a subsidy from Dad, that reactionary.

Meanwhile, however, Authority in university and college has prepared to dampen the spirits of these bright young things. At Columbia, worst assailed by the student ideologues, a Joint Committee on Disciplinary Affairs (seven students, seven professors, three administrators) makes ready to restrain lawless assemblies. Demonstrations, according to this committee, must not disturb “the scholar in the library or laboratory, the teacher and student in the classroom, the writer at his desk.”

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Back to your demonstrations, students and non students! After three months’ vacation—excepting the Democratic Convention—from social protest, the graduate and undergraduate activists may resume their happy designs for disturbing the peace, with a subsidy from Dad, that reactionary.

Meanwhile, however, Authority in university and college has prepared to dampen the spirits of these bright young things. At Columbia, worst assailed by the student ideologues, a Joint Committee on Disciplinary Affairs (seven students, seven professors, three administrators) makes ready to restrain lawless assemblies. Demonstrations, according to this committee, must not disturb “the scholar in the library or laboratory, the teacher and student in the classroom, the writer at his desk.”