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Ahah. Vell, zit iss zee creation ov Professor Heinrich Zultz, late preceptor ov Kulturblat in Bonn...
Harvard's model is (naturally) the prototype. Due to Zultz's untimely death, the instrument is unique. It was acquired in the late 20's by a devoted alumnus and donated to the College. It is kept in a locked room on the third floor of Wadsworth House. Only three men are allowed access to it and their names are known only to the Corporation. It operates roughly on the principle of a seimograph. It measures class spirit...
...ought not to be assumed, according to reliable sources, that this was a trivial occurrence. The class feeling was strong -- registering a pittsburgh on the Zultz Scale. (For reasons that are necessarily obscure the late Dr. Zuitz calibrated his machine on a Boston to-Los Angeles scale.) And October 22 was very early in the class's career at Harvard. Few classes make it past the Hudson before Thanksgiving...
Because Dr. Zultz chose to start his scale with Boston the Gelstgauge can, if necessary, register slight negative discharges of class spirit. This happens every year or so when the Class Committee sends out its first request for money. Back in the '50's once they tried a Senior Class Sing and logged a Bangor...
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