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During his freshman year, sophomores targeted Abbot??s room to steal bed slats and dump off watermelon rinds. According to the diaries, the rogues stuffed a “quill filled with powder” into Abbot??s keyhole to stink up the room. Sometimes, they just dumped buckets of water on the old chap...
...Sullivan discovered Abbot??s personal memoirs in the student life section of the Harvard Archives...
When Sullivan took on the task of whittling 1600 pages of diary entries down to a readable size, he was struck by Abbot??s character...
...Francis Abbot??s great-great-granddaughter, Sue Kriegsman, says she was shocked when she learned of Sullivan’s project and his findings on her ancestor...
...Abbot??s diary provides a window into his persona, but also into a Harvard of ages past...