Word: pranking
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Lampoon president Matt J.T. Murray '99 calls the chamber pot uproar "the Lampoon's first prank" and maintains that Hearst was not expelled but "expunged," meaning that the college destroyed his entire record and any other traces of his having attended Harvard. Current administrators deny knowledge of any such abrogation, and, in fact, no one struck the boy's name from the Faculty records. On September 30, 1885, the Faculty negged Heart's petition to take special exams in order to rejoin his class; on May 4 of the next year, they denied his request to take the eight exams...
Yearning for a Good Prank...
Yesterday's hack into the Lampoon's Web site elicited more than a few chuckles from us at Dartboard. Though the prank itself was rather simple and benign, it was clever and good-natured, encouraging the hapless 'Poonsters to aim for some clever retaliation...
Harvard has been relatively prank-free in recent years. While students at Cornell impale pumpkins on church towers and techies at MIT place police cars on high domes, we are content to go about our lives in routine fashion, not as willing to spend time conceiving, planning and executing a quality prank. Pranking has become a lost...
Skeptical readers might interpret this as a misguided cry for juvenile delinquency. On the contrary, a quality prank is benign and can actually liven up the atmosphere of the College. Victims of a well-conceived prank may feel a bit sheepish at first, but they will eventually appreciate the attention and welcome the obligation to retaliate...