Word: kidnap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate, and given a year or more of imprisonment. This would be an admirable joke...
...University: The freshmen of Cornell University were making preparations for a banquet to come off tomorrow evening, and the sophomores concluded that the feast should not be graced by the presence of C. W. Belestier and E. R. Blood, vice-president of the class. Preparations were made, therefore, to kidnap these two freshmen and keep them in durance until the banquet was over. At 3 o'clock this morning about 40 sophomores swarmed in front of the door leading to the freshmen's rooms. Finding the door barricaded, they cut it down with an axe. The two frightened freshmen were...