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...loose sprays of champagne as Allen entered. Announcing that Petersen and running mate Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 won with 37.5 percent of the vote, Allen introduced the newly elected UC president and vice president as the Glee Club performed “Domine Salvum Fac,” a song sung only to visiting dignitaries and incoming council presidents. “Matt and I are here and we’re going to be working for you every day,” Petersen said in his victory speech. “For every hour...
...have found this Med. Fac. Society to be made up of a good type of men, some of the best in the college,” said then Dean Byron S. Hurlbut, class of 1889. Several members of the Harvard administration were even rumored to be Med. Fac. men themselves. So Hurlbut struck a delicate bargain with the club: he would grant amnesty to Joy and his Med. Fac. compatriots—if they would agree to abandon the club forever...
Surprisingly, dozens of Med. Fac. alumni urged their fellow “Doctors” to abandon the society. The alumni felt the Med. Fac.’s puerile destruction no longer had a place in the serious academic environment of an evolved Harvard University...
...exorcising of the Med. Fac. Society appears to have been successful, but its tradition of pranks continued. In 1936 a group of freshmen attempted to blow up Memorial Hall with a homemade bomb, and later that year a group of revivalists blew up a well in front of Hollis Hall...
Some of the pranks attributed to the Med. Fac. Society, as recorded by the Boston Globe...