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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 2, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 26.

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The Proper Term.

In speaking of a mob of Harvard students who resisted the officers of the law with great violence, shouting, “Kill the police,” the Independent justly remarks that while these students are called by their professors “young gentlemen,” they would be called on the frontier, or in some lumber camp, or in the slums of New York, “ruffians.” Ruffianism is the proper term for such conduct anywhere.