| Summary: | The pamphlet commemorates "the most famous uprising of the Harvard undergarduates in 1807. No less a person than Dr. Channing, the great leader of American Unitarianism, was expelled from college for participation in this revolt." Richard Henry Dana was an enthusiastic participant as well. Known as the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion, it was triggered by "the intolerable grievance of being supplied with food, which they often found neither so neatly cooked, so fat, nor so well roasted, as their most exquisite tastes required. It is the essential quality of great and aspiring minds, not to submit in silence to such insupportable abuses." Petitions and respectful protest were for naught. The anonymous author, later identified as Tufts, recounts the course of the rebellion in his humorous way.
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