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...began. The next sheet in the scroll, dated 1913, tells of a visit by Wetherbee to the room on Commencement Day, 1913. In it, Hamilton Vaughan Ball '13 tells how Wetherbee suddenly appeared at the door, "walked to the door, of the bedroom and standing on my roommate's trunk ran his hand along the top of the door. He then asked me to do the same whereupon I discovered a round wooden plug set in the top. We removed the door found a corkscrew and with Mr. Wetherbee acting as Master of Ceremonies opened the hole." After explaining...
...next discovery of the scroll came in the winter of 1952. Richard Basch '55 and David Poutas '55 contacted a Winthrop Wetherbee in Boston who turned out to be the original Wetherbee's son (class of 1926). He reported in his addition to the Transmittindum that his father often went to the room for Class Day or Commencement and when no one was around would sneak a look at the scroll to see if it had been found. "Although my father never made any effort to show me the Transmittindum," Wetherbee Jr. wrote, "it would have been a source...
...scroll was found again in 1953 by Morris Phinney Jr. '56 who reported "Today we got word that a guy named Pusey is our new Pres. here at Harv...
...annual cleaning rounds last June, Lynch, who, like most of the janitors before him, know about the scroll, found it "sticking halfway out of the hole and mashed against the doorframe." He tried to push it back in, but soon saw that "all those additions and things made it just too large...
Lynch, reluctantly took the scroll to the office of College Dormitories where an administrative decision was quickly handed down: the scroll would be sent to the archives and replaced with a typewritten copy...