Word: pranking
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...Indian summer may come yet, Brook added, but it will have to put in an appearance soon. Thanksgiving is the traditional deadline for Indian summers. This current prank of the elements lasted only two days, where a genuine Indian summer usually streches out over a week or more. Frosty nights are another characteristic of Indian summers...
...Lampoon and the Union played unwilling parts in a pre-Hallowe'en prank yesterday morning. At about 7:30 a.m., police found a bison head on the steps of the 'Poon building...
...weeks at Oxford, as a prank, Greene was a dues-paying member of the Communist Party. When he found that party membership would not get him a free trip to Moscow, he dropped out. And at Oxford, when he was 20, he published his first book, his only book of poetry. Babbling April owed both its mood and title to Edna St. Vincent Millay, and it was pretty frail stuff.* The really big thing that happened to Greene at Oxford was meeting Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a dark, pretty girl with a flawless complexion, and a Roman Catholic...
Individuals are the best source. The scientist who makes a wild statement, the undergraduate who perpetrates a nocturnal prank, the individual sports star--all these are unofficial sources, and make the best reading. And the most important idea that Harvard represents is illustrated by this--freedom of the individual to rise or fall on his own responsibility. Therefore the picture of Harvard formed by the reading public is, Pinkerton says, mainly formed by the "accidents and impulses of individuals...
...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...