For years afterward, Connecticut students ramnapped Ulysses and his successors. When Rhode Island quit using live rams as mascots in , the trophy was moved to the J.
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College pranks took the form of streaking on college campuses starting in the early s. Defined as running naked through a public place, streaking started out with solitary males running across campus or at sporting events. Women soon joined in the fun and streakers began running around en masse. Some historians peg the beginning of the craze after newspapers began reported streakers at Florida State in January The student government in March called a meeting at Memorial Hall to discuss how to handle the streaking epidemic.
The state of Maine ended up enacting a law against streaking, but it proved ineffective. A prosecutor charged them with indecent conduct. One of the women asked the police officer if he saw her genitals. MIT students once put a campus police car on top of the Great Dome, its lights flashing and its dummy inhabitant enjoying coffee and donuts.
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Not all pranks involve technology. Students at UNH, a land-grant college, have access to farm animals for their college pranks. Somehow they got the cow down as well. In , students replicated the college prank by stashing a cow in the second floor of Ballard Hall. A poem written by the night watchman , Pop Marshall, recounts the episode:.
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Years later, UNH would be victimized by a more serious college prank of sorts when popular physics professor Kevin Yates turned out to be a college dropout named Marvin Hewitt. In the annals of Brown University, perhaps no administrator was so victimized by college pranks as Asa Messer. He punished pranksters by rusticating them — sending them off to work on a farm. They called him a tyrant.
Samuel Gridley Howe had attended Brown during those troubled times, and had once led Dr. He apologized for his wayward youthful behavior. I am afraid there will be a torpedo under my chair before I know it. In the s, thousands of young Vermont men left their family farms to attend college. Return to Book Page. Oxford University is famed for the intelligence and innovation of its students.
However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on their unsuspecting dons. This entertaining volume recalls some of the greatest stunts and practical jokes in the university's history, inc Oxford University is famed for the intelligence and innovation of its students.
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This entertaining volume recalls some of the greatest stunts and practical jokes in the university's history, including those by Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, T. Lawrence, Richard Burton, and Roger Bacon. Ranging from the stunt that gave Folly Bridge its name and a nineteenth-century jape that resulted in the expulsion of all the students from University College, to the long-running rivalry between Town and Gown and the exploits of the infamous Bullingdon Club, Oxford Student Pranks will amaze and enthrall in equal measure—and may well prove a source of inspiration for current students wishing to enliven their undergraduate days.
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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. I would have given it 5 full stars at the beginning. However, towards the end, where there was the most material available it was lacking. It was a light amusing read, but the author should have put more research into it. Jan 18, Alzy rated it it was ok. Most of the anecdotes were interesting and entertaining but I felt that sometimes the author tried to be too funny and some of his jokes got a little old.
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