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...CRIMSON pictured the College "at the crossroads of her social and educational progress." Guided by President Alan R. Sweezy, managing editor Richard A. Stout, and editorial chairman George Weller, the daily decided it would rather have men "shape their own intellectual destiny and their own breadth of social direction... than to have that destiny and breadth bestowed upon them." This scholarly protest was largely lost amid the vehemence that arose from the 40 Bow St. establishment, however...
...Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). It was staged by Conductor William H. Reese of the Haverford College Glee Club, partly because he wanted to avoid the "usual mishmash and hodgepodge" of choral programs, partly because from the time he was in college himself, he has been a stout Schütz admirer...
...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...
After the Smoker had ended, Stout and a friend walked up to Radcliffe in order to set the explosive off. They lit one fuse and hurried out of range, but nothing happened. Stout then went up to the bomb, and, in the dark, made a new fuse. However, he used to much powder, the fuse went too fast, and the explosion hit him in the face before he could move back...
...Despite Stout's serious injury, he walked all the way back to Wigglesworth before enlisting medical...