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...Alpha Delta Phi Chapter house. Yale undergraduates could only realize that no Yale team captain can be properly photographed except sitting, with his hair brushed, on Photographer Pach's fragment. Photographer Pach announced that he had been offered and had refused as high as $10,000 for the relic. New Haven stirred angrily...
...sally with an old tradition, and the editors of that organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...
...hard for the members of any other institution to estimate the degree of veneration in which such a relic as the Yale fence is held by those brought up in the tradition. Ten thousand dollars is reputed to be the monetary measure of its value, but cash is proverbially cold and no one can attempt to estimate the heat of emotion likely to be kindled by its recent disappearance. The rumor that prompt expulsion hangs over any Yale undergraduate who might be implicated in the outrage may be taken as an indication of the reverence with which the fence tradition...
...Civic Sword. Along in glory on the back seat sat Most Worshipful Sir William, his robes of scarlet, black and gold, a cocked hat on his head and his heavy chain of office round his neck. In his hand he held a bouquet of sweet smelling herbs (hygienic relic of the Great Plague...
...Smith's Creek station, relic of the days of the Grand Trunk Railroad, was brought from nearby Port Huron, Mich...