A RUMOR has reached us that there is much indignation among the graduating class at the unwarrantable action of President Eliot in calling in the service of the police on Commencement night; that it was utterly unnecessary, and was a direct insult by degrading the class to the level of so many criminals. We should have been pleased to see more respect paid to the graduating class, and less open obsequiousness to the Presidential party at Commencement Dinner. For ourselves, we reserve our opinion as to the insult, but we acknowledge our blindness as to the necessity of such a summary step, and venture to say that probably the College would not be to-day under the necessity of repairing the burnt shed behind the Scientific School had it not been for the number of obnoxious policemen with which the Yard was crowded.
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