Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day and the next the same thing happened. Not until the bluebooks were falling thick and fast on the table could the proctor find anything wrong, and then--just one terrifying stare from the unknown eyes, and the discovery that there was a blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June...
Then the reports from the correctors began to come in. All the unsigned books were well above passing and the majority reached the honors level. As the number grew, the record of the unknown approached that of the famous Theocrates Didymus, who took and passed 26 final examinations in 1888. But before that point was reached, the dentity of the unknown was discovered...
...guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away, chuckled as the previous scene repeated itself. Pleased, the President several times repeated his little prank. Eventually the Secret Service detail discovered the source of the false alarms, put in another bell in a spot unknown to the President. When this story became public, persons who question the existence of a presidential sense of humor flouted its accuracy. Yet Richard Jervis, head of the Executive Secret Service detail, vouched solemnly...
...making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took no proceedings against its People. Governor Bilbo said he had neither time nor money to investigate 2,000 persons. A coroner's jury, looking into the death of Negro Shepherd, decided that he had died from "causes unknown...
...members of the section of abnormal psychology, or, as some wit flavored minds choose to call us "the abnormal psychologists", are housed in a small frame building of the Boston & Maine period of architecture at No. 19 Beaver Street. Beaver Street? The name is unknown to Cantabrigians; even the taxicab drivers in Harvard Square, with the exception of course of the sapient Nappy, are unacquainted with it. Hence we must state that it is a picturesque thoroughfare which leads off Memorial Drive a block beyond the John W. Weeks Memorial bridge. It is a very pleasant location for an embryonic...