Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant-Colonel Apted left for New Haven Saturday afternoon in charge of Handsome Dan II, and later that evening presented the dog to Yale authorities. Last night a bulletin from New Haven said that Apted had stated that at the request of Malcolm Farmer, Director of Yale athletics, Harvard officials had put the search in his hands...
...dognapping at New Haven, suspected by the Yale possessors of Handsome Dan, II, bulldog mascot, to be the work of Harvard wretches attempting reprisal for the theft of the Lampoon's Ibis has, in the argot of crime, a number of angles. First of all, the Harvards went and lifted a section of the historic Yale fence from Pach's photographic studio. Then the Ibis disappeared. Now Yale's favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes...
...other hand, it is possible that Handsome Dan, II can take care of himself. In a broadcast appeal his Yale friends have requested that his captors, whoever they may be, feed him on nothing but red meat. And it seems to us that the fine Italian hand of an Eli Machiavelli becomes visible. We never yet heard of a Yale bulldog fed for any appreciable length of time on raw beef that needed any sympathy. The Yales may have been able with impunity to kidnap a poor defenceless stuffed Ibis, but we shall be surprised if in a short time...
Advice from New Haven late last night established the report that a large delegation of the Yale Record was enroute for Cambridge in search of their kidnapped bulldog, Handsome Dan...
...search for Handsome Dan has kept New England buzzing for almost a week and has been featured by numerous amusing incidents. Within the environs of Cambridge, Charles Apted and his cohorts have carried on a courageous but fruitless search which has carried them into the furthest reaches of the University, and sent them scurrying in all directions at the slightest rumor. It was expected that the Colonel would neglect his dog hunt on Tuesday in favor of the Eliot Centenary Exercises, but when the crowd gathered in the court of Eliot House for the unveiling of the new bust...