Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...happened to have indirectly under my care a young Freshman who while hither to blameless in character had the misfortune, after some public day in Boston, to be caught in some prank, not very serious, such as the throwing of a stolen sign off the end of a bridge into the Charles River, during which lamentable misdeed, he had been arrested by the police and spent the night with his two or three companions in the lock-up. When they were called before the judge on the next morning I was allowed to make a brief statement of the case...
...December number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine contains the following articles: "The Solid Satisfactions of Life," C. W. Eliot '53; "From a graduate's Window;" The Teachers' Endowment Fund," J. D. Greene '96; "Religious Reform at Harvard," O. B. Roberts '86; "Patrick Andrew Collins;" "The Mock Trial: An Old Prank," N. Holmes '37; "Notable Books," "Emerson Memorial Hall;" "The University: The Autumn Quarter, " R. B. Merriman '96; "Student Life," H. A. Bellows '06; "Athletics;" "The Graduates;" Illustrations...
Other articles are "The Mock Trial: An Old Prank," which is a sketch describing an escapade of days long gone by, reviews of some notable books by Harvard men, and a short description of Emerson Hall...
There are two ways of looking at the recent Med. Fac. incident. We may consider it as a mere prank and totally different from real house-breaking and theft. If so, we should give the incident no further attention. Or we may consider it as something totally unworthy of a member of our community, as an affront to some of the best phases of the life of that community, and as an insult to the memory of one of our truest graduates. If so, we should uproot the evil, showing no mercy...
...apparently originated when the College was more like a school than a large University and when the students were imbued with that spirit of prank playing natural to such a situation. As long as the College remained a College this spirit was fostered and some explanation could then be made for the existence of such an organization although its existence was to our minds unjustifiable. But now times have changed, the University has put away childish things and the "Med. Fac." is out of date...