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...actual facts are quite different. The three were in the process of taking the nameplate when McCarthy appeared and requested that the students step into his office. Police were summoned and after some questioning, it was agreed that the whole affair was a minor prank and the matter was apparently forgotten. McCarthy parted on good terms and even promised to send duplicate nameplates to each of the three students. Then came the publicity...
...Dean's Office affairs," he wrote for his class' 25th alumni report, "and my claims as an economist are feeble." In the printing of the book, the last word was altered to read "feeble-minded", but this Dean Leighton laughs about and possibly regards as a delayed "College" prank...
...President, John, was one of the 43 (out of a class of 70) expelled just before Commencement for participation in the "Great Rebellion of 1823." Some 50 years later and 39 after John's death, the faculty backed down and granted the group their diplomas "in absentia." Primary prank of the notorious Class of 1823 was rolling cannon balls down the stairs of the tottering Yard dormitories...
...this paranoiac prank...
...college student is more mature, responsible, and studious than his predecessors, says Stein. He cites the decline of hazing and prank playing in favor of such acts as putting up student dormitories, painting and repairing homes of needy families, and performing various community services. As an example, he points to Wilmington College in Ohio, where students put in up to 400 hours each in building a new dormitory...