Word: pyromaniac
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...easy at first. At his very first formal faculty reception, his garage was set on fire by a pyromaniac. When he had to abolish Yale's traditionally boisterous Derby Day, a mob of students marched on his house, was turned away by a few firm words from the president. And wherever he looked, Yale's awesome operating deficit ($450,000 last year) was there to haunt...
Meanwhile, while police were trying to link the two fires, Gardner E. Lindzey, lecturer in Social Relations, suggested the theory that someone with latent pyromaniac tendencies might have been inspired to set the second fire by the publicity and attention given the first one. He added, however, that this was pure conjecture...
...pyromaniac may be loose in the Harvard Square area, Fire Chief John F. Collins revealed last night...