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They did like to pull the occasional prank, though, like the time a missing bell clapper off student riots...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...turned out that someone had cut the bell clapper loose--and this thing weighted 300 pounds," Ehrenfried says. "As far as I know, no one ever figured out how the thing disappeared in broad daylight...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...Someone said a station wagon was going to come by with the clapper in it." Ehrenfried says. "Since it was a nice spring night, we started raising Cain...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...enterprising classmate of mine went to a local blacksmith and had another clapper made," Fox says. "Then he said it (the original clapper) would appear outside Hollis South, where he lived." That, Fox says, is what started the riot...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...Class of 1935, at some of the at least. "broke into the Radcliffe dormitories and rushed though the halls in search of the missing "We want our bell-clapper and we want liver." The Crimson reported at the time. "By this time [in Brattle Square] eggs were flying merrily...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

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