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Updike spoke very fondly of his days as a student in Hollis Hall and Lowell House.
Yesterday's incident was not without precedent.Last September, students in Hollis Hall calledpolice after discovering an unknown man showeringin the second floor bathroom.
The pranks over time grew more and more serious. The "doctors" of Med. Fac. stole many religious and rare books from Harvard, blew up the water pump in front of Hollis, and stole exhibitions from museums. At a bonfire that they started, a bystander was trampled and killed by horses...
Older endowed professorships which have become difficult to fill over the years include the Hollis Chair of Mathematick and Natural Philosophy and the Fisher Professorship of Natural History, charged with studying "animal, mineral and vegetable" in the 1700s.
This year, as a Yard resident, I have had ample opportunity to observe this phenomenon. When passing by I can't help but listen in, and some of the things I've heard are worth sharing. On my way to Bio I passed a tour in the Science Center and...