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None of today’s most elite societies have managed to maintain the secrecy that veiled the Med. Fac. from its first days, though many seem to have inherited traces of the group’s peculiar taste in campus pranks...
...Fac. Society—a playful abbreviation of “medical faculty”—was born. The name was chosen to reflect the medical benefits of a society whose embrace of the absurd diverted the mind from pain and sadness...
Legend had it that in order to become a member of the Med. Fac., interested undergraduates had to pull a prank serious enough to risk expulsion from the College. In the early days of the society, the club’s pranks included mocking college administrators and granting fake degrees, painting the John Harvard statue red, and locking unpopular tutors in their studies. The society issued honorary degrees—fake diplomas written in pidgin Latin—to notable contemporaries, such as the prince of Haiti, a pair of Siamese twins known as Cheng and Heng, a sea serpent...
...Kast promptly resigned after questions were raised as to how the ES&S machines purchased by eleven Florida counties were certified by the state when they did not comply with Florida law, though one may imagine the decision was influenced by the Florida Association of Counties’ (FAC) sole endorsement of ES&S. In turn, it seems possible that the $300,000 in commissions that FAC received from the sales may have convinced them of the very real “value” of that company’s machines. Such a price...
...Harvard Glee Club, dressed in black tie, traditionally serenades the winning ticket with a rendition of “Domine Salvum Fac,” in order to offer the president and vice president divine protection...