Word: paints
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...celebration of Saturday's victories was marred by acts of the most deplorable vandalism. The statue of John Harvard, its pedestal, and many of the buildings in the yard were defaced with duabs of paint-acts which seem to have been prompted by a spirit of deviltry rather than of enthusiasm. That outrages such as these could have been committed by any responsible Harvard man we think extremely unlikely, and on that account we believe them to have been committed either by an outsider or some freshman whose misguided reason has led him to forget that he is a Harvard...
...excellent thing, but when a man allows himself to be carried into a marauding expedition like that of Saturday evening, it is time that a most decided half should be called. It is shameful that an athletic victory should lead to such acts of vandalism as daubing red paint over the most conspicuous places around the yard. Besides the disgrace of the painted words themselves, the injury done to the statue of John Harvard and the buildings is great and perhaps irreparable. There have been some mischievous attacks on the statue before this, and some ungentlemanly incidents in previous celebrations...
...cage to be erected by the University of Pennsylvania will be of corrugated iron on a wooded frame, 100 feet wide by 200 long. with fifteen large wire-covered windows. A coating of white paint has been put on the interior to facilitate battery practice, while a well-made track, bath and dressing rooms will make indoor training a possibility. The cost will be $6,500 enough of which has already been subscribed to warrant immediate building...