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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...
...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...
...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 drawing the fire engine sent to put out the fire...
...Congress or that menial job at Newsweek. Twenty-year-olds have been told they weren't quite good enough for that thesis grant or prestigious fellowship. And 21-year-olds by the dozen have been told they weren't quite good enough for Yale Law or johns Hopkins Med., for that job at McKinsey or Goldman, Sachs...