Word: prank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish the picture in the Yale game number of the Lampoon...
When these advertisements appeared, the assistant district attorney in charge of prohibition enforcement refused to take any action against the editors of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, dismissing the whole affair as a college prank. It could not be learned last night if an investigation was now being contemplated, in the light of developments of the past week...
...organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...
...between Yale men and several undergraduates of Princeton, Yale, or Harvard. It has become fairly clear, since the receipt by the Yale News of obviously spurious telegrams from various sections of country that the disappearance of this last vestige of an old Yale tradition was an undergraduate prank. That the Eli authorities regard it as such is shown by the fact that detectives are already at work on the campi of the universities under suspicion...
...several very dubious telegrams being received at Yale point obviously to the fact that the disappearance of the fence is due to the equally traditional spirit of the college prank. Undergraduates are notoriously poor judges of the effects of what they are pleased to consider practical jokes and it is most improbable that the persons responsible for the purloining of the famous Yale antique had any conception of the really serious furore which the event is reported to have caused in New Haven. It is certainly to be hoped that those who consider themselves directly offended by the incident will...