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...seniors have a function? As it turns out, even in the era before ID was needed to buy alcohol, they did. Around 1818, a society including a score of upperclassmen devoted to pranks and trouble-making was organized. Medical Faculty ("Med. Fac." for short) was a secretive society with whose membership was restricted to members of prominent east coast families...
From its inception until is demise in 1905, Med. Fac. wreaked havoc all over campus. The members exploded bombs in Sanders Theatre, painted bright red penises on the John Harvard statue, hung chamber pots and human skeletons from lamp posts and regularly stole the bell clapper from Memorial Church...
...pranks got more and more serious over the course of the society's 100 years. Eventually, each initiate was made to perform an act that could get him expelled at the very least and perhaps land him in prison. Fac. played such harsh pranks that membership in it alone was technically grounds for disciplinary action. Presidents of Harvard College repeatedly asserted that anyone found to be a member of Med. Fac. would be expelled. As a result, the meetings were held in secret in an underground room on Mass...
...Enriqueta Bond, a national expert in science and medical policy, will discuss the changing nature of biomedical research at Radcliffe's annual Fac Golden Kass Lecture next Thursday, according to a press release...
...lecture is named for Fac Gordon Kass, a psychiatric social worker and career counselor, was committed to the promotion and education of women...