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...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
Officials of the Freshman Jubilee Election Committee yesterday nipped an election prank planned by the anonymous supporters of Cesare U. Balzotti III '57, ineligible candidate of last fall's Smoker Committee election. Balzotti's followers had petitioned the eight men of the freshman class named Smith to run in the forthcoming Jubilee election...
...which the University and its students have been subjected this year. On Monday night the radio aerials of nine ears parked on Mt. Auburn Street were maliciously snapped off. On previous occasions I have counted as many as fifteen ears parked on Dunster Street on which this same prank was played. Since the replacement of these aerials usually costs about ten dollars, I personally fail to find any humor in this wanton destructiveness. The countless number of windows around the University which have been broken by rock-throwing urchins is just another example of this vandalism. Especially in view...
Other men have benefited Colgate more through their reputation than their munificence. Colgate is proud that Charles Evans Hughes was its student, even though he was expelled for conduct unbecoming a Colgate man. Everyone says he committed a "prank", but just how serious a "prank" has been a matter of speculation for years. The actual facts behind his dismissal lie buried in dusty old college records...
...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...