Word: pranks
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...summer before his senior year, Borowitz and the Lampoon sent out a special prank issue of The Crimson to all of the incoming freshmen, in which they described college life as one filled with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The description was so vivid and disconcerting for many of the prefrosh and their parents that University Hall was flooded with angry phone calls and threats of transfers to Yale...
...Harvard administration did not take kindly to the prank and pressured Borowitz to reveal the name of the source who provided him with incoming students’ addresses...
Speaking in his thoughtful, soft-spoken tone, he discusses an incident of cross–burning outside his dorm in February of his freshman year—which had been conducted by his fellow freshmen as a “prank.” The five-foot-high burning cross was placed outside Stoughton Hall, where nine black students lived...
...favorite Lampoon prank took place at the Fogg Art Museum...
Legend had it that in order to become a member of the Med. Fac., interested undergraduates had to pull a prank serious enough to risk expulsion from the College. In the early days of the society, the club’s pranks included mocking college administrators and granting fake degrees, painting the John Harvard statue red, and locking unpopular tutors in their studies. The society issued honorary degrees—fake diplomas written in pidgin Latin—to notable contemporaries, such as the prince of Haiti, a pair of Siamese twins known as Cheng and Heng, a sea serpent...