The proceedings at Madison Square Garden were broadcast live on the radio, and, in some parts of America, as Murray writes, there was shock at the “urban rowdyism” of Smith’s supporters.

Legco, never powerful, has degenerated into farce as frustrated radicals resort to rowdyism and filibusters.

The Parisian Apache, so self-styled after the North American Indian tribe, is a much more dangerous character; mere rowdyism, the characteristic of the English “hooligan,” is replaced by murder, robbery and outrage.

The event was made the occasion of rowdyism unimpeded by any surveillance on the part of the government authorities.

But some men mean by college spirit something finer than lawlessness, dissipation, and rowdyism.