Word: clappers
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...possibility of another "clapper mystery" loomed yesterday when the usually faithful Memorial Hall bell, which keeps Freshman watches on time, failed in its duty yesterday afternoon and failed to strike the hours...
Neither Col. Charles A. Apted '06, chief of the Yard Police, nor Hugh Livingstone, janitor of the building could offer any explanation of the failure of the new clapper which replaced the one stolen in April, 1932. Livingstone stated that he had been moving tables during the afternoon and would not have noticed whether the clock struck or not. He said that he had not noticed anything amiss in the morning which might indicate that vandals had again entered the building and reified it of its useful possession...
...They sang like hell, but I did not see any drunks," he said. Which is all that it should be. Somebody then asked us whether the Memorial Hall Clapper was presented to the new President, along with the other regalia...
Besides his active prosecution of the clapper case, Apted this last spring achieved even greater fame by recovering the Sacred Cod of the State of Massachusetts, purloined from the State House by a group of Harvard ruffians...
...valiant work in the clapper case, Apted was elevated from the rank of captain of the Yard Police to that of major, and less than a year later was made a colonel in recognition of his recovery of the Seared...