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Show j COLLEGE SfflT IS CAUSE OF TROUBLE Ducking in Lake by College Students Results in Charges ; fylade to Atty.-General HAYS, Kan., March 25. Ducking in a lake of a student and two members of the faculty, one of -whom charged that the students had organized a "soviet" was not the work of any "soviet," "sov-iet," E. L. Montague, financial secretary secre-tary of the Fort Hays Normal School, declared. He denied In a telephone conversation with the attorney general at Tonoka that there Yv'as any tendency tenden-cy toward a "soviet" among the students stu-dents or faculty. The trouble arose. Mr. Montague said, from a mis-intcrpretation and mis-construction of the attitude of the student body by a few individuals. The day had been -set apart as campus day in which every member of the faculty fac-ulty and ever student was expected to help in building a six-lap track. A playful- suggestion was made, accord- ting to Mr. Montague, that those who refused be ducked. Three men thought it was coercion and refused to help. The ihree, James j Start and P. Casher Harvey of the fac- ulty, and John E. Lindqui3t, a student, (were ducked, with the approval of fac ulty nuu sliiuuuis, huuui u j:i l; lu nil. Montague. "It was simply an expression of college col-lege spirit, nothing else," he said, r"Harve one of the men ducked sent two telegrams to the state board of administration, in which he said a student "soviet" was in charge and asked help. |