Word: prank
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...Roosevelt had just been informed by Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, that the letter asking him if he would permit the trouble-some Lowell House bells to be named for him, was an undergraduate prank. Consenting to the publication of the correspondence, he wired: "In spite of it all, the next time I go to Cambridge, I propose to listen to those bells...
...warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank...
...excellent breeding grounds, but so do schools, hotels, camps, nursing homes and hospitals. "Whenever we look for this virus," says Dr. Marc Widdowson, a CDC epidemiologist, "we find it." Just last week 100 students (of 500) at the Varsity Acres Elementary School in Calgary, Alta., stayed home sick. School prank? Hardly. The Norwalk virus had struck again...
...prank posters come after 22 of Chopra’s legitimate posters had been torn down from locations throughout the Yard yesterday morning, the candidate said...
That's what Jonze is best at. He has become the big brother nudging other people to do the crazy stunts while he stays at home with his wife Sofia Coppola. The only prank he pulls on me during our entire lunch is when he tells me he purposely and of his own volition canceled the cable TV in his apartment. Like I'm going to believe that...