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...assistant, Kent Bushnel, discovered the theft at 9:45 a.m. Monday evening. Several students were in the lab when he walked into the room, which had been specially opened so that students might study the rocks before the exam. None of these students were connected with the rifling...
Police Protection. In Burlington, Vt., when Perley Weed, 24, reported the theft of his car, the cops investigated, charged that Weed's license had been suspended and that his car was improperly registered, hauled him off to county jail...
...great honor to be among the group that steals the bell, competition is hard between various bunches of freshmen to see who can carry off the prize first. The University doesn't mind the theft once a year, although the proctors and campus cops keep a sharp eye out and apprehend anyone they can who acts even faintly suspicious near the tower. To elude the watchful constabulary and get the clapper is every Tiger cub's dream...
...great is the enthusiasm for the theft that many classes have been known to foster several separate and independent groups who have not only stolen the first clapper, but its replacements...
...become obvious that Thresky's repeated public appearances have been engineered by some calculating conspiratorial group. It is absurd to maintain that a copper bird could have arranged a series of audiences with notables, or eluded pursuers unaided, Ever since what now appears to have been a wilful theft, his captors have consistently made a spectacle of the revered mascot--to what purpose, save to embarrass and distress its owners, it is hard to imagine...