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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps cadets never heated their cannon-balls before rolling them, but roll them they certainly did down the iron stairways of cadet barracks to the accompaniment of bucketfuls of stone poured from the upper story windows upon the tin roofs of the porches below. And though I recall no instance of a skunk being placed in the desk of a West Point professor, there is an authentic story to the effect that the superintendent's cow was once hoisted to the top of the tower of the old Academic Building and left there in the night to moo--out hours...
...Upon graduation in 1925 Bassett went into business for three years, and in 1928 he entered the Law School, where he is now enrolled as a Sophomore...
...responsibility and a working knowledge of the dictates of good taste on the part of her undergraduates. To an almost remarkable degree it has been successful. But in the case of the annual initiations of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, there has been an increasing tendency to impose upon the leniency of the authorities...
Public drunkeness which results in conduct objectionable to non-participants has grown to be looked upon in modern societies as a violation, of taste and, public decency. There is obviously heavy drinking in connection with the Pudding running and there is reason to believe that this public display or drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students are regularly seen in the Yard and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances...
Besides the numerous breaches of taste which occurred yesterday, such a mess was made upon Widener steps that the University had five men working five hours to clear it away. Whether there is still a place at Harvard for initiations essentially inoffensive but still childish and collegiate is not now the point. It will be unfortunate if the College authorities feel forced to break with custom and interfere with a situation which should be corrected by the individuals directly responsible. It will be a sorry reflection upon Harvard maturity if preparatory school correction must be meted out from above...