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Among the most famous was the stealing of the Massachusetts State symbol, Boston's Sacred Cod, a large wooden fish, on April 26, 1933. According to the Boston Post of April 27, 1933, "Since 1798 until some time between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. the sacred, silent emblem of Massachusetts had held a place of honor in the state House...
...whereabouts of the cod remained unknown for over a week while evidence piled up against Harvard culprits and eventually pointed to the Lampoon. Guards told newsmen elaborate stories of a "curly haired boy" standing near the cod, holding a large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...
SOMEWHERE on Cape Cod there are Indians who owe their salvation to Harvard...
...Indians since 1716, when the Rev. Dr. Daniel Williams of London left an annuity to Harvard for the "blessed work of converting the Indians." The Corporation still splits the annual balance of the fund (last year $1,530) between the minister of the Indian church at Mashpee on Cape Cod and the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Boston...
...shots this fine spring afternoon. Indeed, their clubs never made it out of the back seat of the 1975 Matador that was transporting the foursome of Scott McNeely, Alex Vik, Randy Millen and John Bartlett to the match's scheduled site of New Seabury Country Club on Cape Cod. Instead, it was a shanked brake which caused all of the trouble, a two-car collision outside of a shopping mall in Wareham, Mass., and the assessment of a two-stroke penalty to the Crimson for hitting into an unexpected hazard...