Word: pranks
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...dressed student who staggered in during a football weekend. Flouting the University rule on eating attire, the freshman, wearing only shorts, tie, and coat, sauntered into the hall and jumped from table top to table top. His exploits, however, won him a suspension. But to Mrs. Corballis such a prank is the exception. "The hall is usually very calm...
...Jolla, Calif. tj Reports Bumblie's headmaster, Gerald Miller, no wet weed: "If such a wonderful hoax had happened up at university, it would have gone down as a great university prank. Some people thought it was terrible and required discipline, others that it was deucedly clever and should be laughed off. I decided the latter, so he has had no punishment and will get none." Added the Head, who is also getting mail about Bumblie: "I hope your readers are happy about...
...about my fellow man," he retreats for longer and longer periods into prayer. When prayer comes hard, he fasts. From too much fasting he grows weak. Troubled with mysterious pain of body and soul, he struggles helplessly with his practical responsibilities. The children of the village laugh at him, prank him ruthlessly. When he innocently tries to give spiritual advice to the worldly lord of the manor, that glacial aristocrat calls him crazy. Soon everyone seems to hate him. The middle-aged priest of the next parish explains why: "Your simplicity . . . burns them...
...student, later expelled for the prank, was severely injured after the Smoker when a firecrackers he lit in the Radcliffe Yard blew up in his face. Leighton refused to comment "as an official" but did not deny there was a connection between the Faculty action and the Smoker accident. He said only, "This is the same year...
...bomb which caused Stout's injury was a prank devised by him and several of his friends in preparation for the Smoker celebration. It consisted of an empty beer can filled with a quantity of black gunpowder that had been emptied from some 23 shotgun shells. The constructors did not buy a mechanical detonator to set the explosive off, but planned instead to make their own fuse out of some extra gunpowder...