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Last year the serenity of one of the entries of Thayer was suddenly disturbed by a violent explosion, which, on examination, proved to have been caused by a large cannon-cracker which some reckless student had fastened to the door of one of the rooms and then ignited. Although there was some ground for this outrage, the victim of the assault being a musical friend, the perpetrators were severely censured by the college for the folly and childishness of their act, and it was hoped that such an affair would never be repeated. Wednesday night, however, some miscreants, for they...
...defacing of the Harvard statue and the chapel; its last exhibition has been even more foolish and dangerous. While England is being terrified by dynamite explosions, some men seized upon the idea that a little sensation of the kind would be interesting here. Accordingly, last week, a large cannon cracker was fired off at midnight in front of Matthews. As this did not produce the desired effect, another one was tied to a door knob in Thayer and went off, scorching the door, and covering the floor with burning wadding. The same day, a gentleman, while pouring coal...
...inmates of the middle entry of Thayer who rushed out of their rooms at half past eleven o'clock last Friday night with the thought that a tragedy was occurring in the entry, were disappointed. They found only the remains of a large common cracker which some gentleman with a keen sense of humor had exploded on the third landing...
Last evening the industrious inmates of Matthews were suddenly startled by the report of cannon fire-cracker placed at the foot of a tree near the dormitory by some laz student, probably, who has little consideration for the poor grinders" within...
...college chooses the procession she will march with, let every student join that procession. If they do not do so, the old custom will be broken; for then half the men will go in one procession and half in another, thereby losing all the fun,-like a fire-cracker broken in the middle, both ends of which are only good for a fizzle. We think therefore that the minority should go with the majority, and in the present case that the whole college should march in the Republican procession, or a good old custom will be practically done away with...