![]() Princeton once expelled more than half its student body. After one riot at Harvard, 62 percent of the graduating class was expelled. Somebody lost an eye.Įxpulsions were common. At Yale students detonated a bomb, occupied buildings, and drove back a local militia. They set fire to school buildings, smoked faculty out of their offices, and rolled flaming tar barrels across campus. They sang, yelled, and blew horns late into the night to torture their sleeping professors. Between the mid-1700s and the mid-1800s, there were student protests and uprisings at every school in New England and most of those in the South, with students objecting to everything from the quality of the food to the rigidity of schedules to the content of the curriculum. ![]() ![]() As a result, higher education became a battleground. ![]()
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