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Lamont Dupont, the original and most lavish hoax, combines heady extravagance with a condescending democracy toward classmates. He "enjoys the sport of kings--falconry"; he has been seen, according to posters, at the Abyssinian royal ball, the Jamaican government congress, and other aristocratic functions. Voting against him is futile since "he owns us all anyway," but freshmen should give him their ballots since "he has condescended...
Because the "real" Oliver A. Yabook of the Register picture had since shaved off his mustache, the hoax leaders hired a tonsorially complete Harvard senior to impersonate their man. After receiving a standing ovation in the Union during Tuesday's supper, "Oliver" was frisked away to await the Yabook rally. At 7:15, a rented moving van stopped on Quincy Street and, flanked by two kilted swordsmen and a seven-piece band, "Yabook" strode to the steps of the Varsity Club. There, as the rally proceeded in darkness, Dupont agitators in the crowd led rival cheers and threw the evening...
Unless influential hoax-candidate leaders persuade the Union Committee to publish the results of this unofficial race, no write-in ballots will be counted. We believe that the votes should be accredited, however, since we think Oliver A. Yabook would prove an exemplary Jubilee Chairman. And, in the event that Lamont Dupont should lose, we are hoping that he will condescend to run for the HYRC presidency...
...moment there is actually an empoverished aristocratic female wasting away in Paris. About half of the few surviving Russian royalists accept her as their princess, the daughter of Czar Nicholas II, but most of the world either ignores her existence or attacks her as an obvious hoax. The royal problem or mystery of Anastasia is romantic and intriguing. The movie about her, however...
...back in the fall of 1903, a Harvard team was nearly upset by a hoax that has since become legendary--the hidden ball trick of the Carlisle Indians...