M.I.T. Students Drop 'Bombs,' Go to Court

Roxbury District Court looked like a college classroom this morning at 46 M.I.T. students appeared before Judge Thomas J. Spring on charges of disturbing the peace.

The session was unique because Spring had ordered the students' arrest Tuesday night after he spotted them dropping water bombs out of fraternity house windows along Beacon St.

Police herded the rioters out of the fraternity houses into waiting wagons, and then went back into the rooms for more. Many students, protesting innocence, insisted that they were studying at the time, and objected to the police intrusion of their privacy.

When Spring deferred the case until May 11, the students were released on $25 bail, most of it put up by their fraternities.