El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-03
HARvARD's STATUE DESIGNATED.
The Statue Bed tubed With Red Paint
by OYer-ENnb rant Students.

The dispatch~s state that the stone
statue of John Harvard, he founder OF
Harvard OlegP, at Cambridge, Mass.
has gam been besmeared with rec
paint, this icing the very urdesira BILE
way r'ajn students to- ok to express
their joy at the victory Of Harvard
over Pr nceton in base ball. TIE
outrage has excl ed much indigna-
ton on Harvard square and in Boston
generally.
This is the second time the statue of
| old John Harvard has been thus abus-
ed. A few years ago when Harvard
won big game from va e, Cambridge
students painted red socks on the
statue, ard then daubed the surround
ing 60 crete pavement with ito he'll
| with Yale" in red. Considera bic other
damage was done, but the perpetrators
were never discovered. Then it was
not long fore that some student
exploded a bomb in one of the beautiful
windows Of Memorial hall, ut erly
running it. The entire detective force
of the city were enlistened in the
efforts to find out the perpetrators of
the deed, but no ''alarming discover
ies'' were made; they rarely are. 1T
is the hardest thing in the world" to
detect students who engage in these
pranks, for the good au1 sufficient
reason that the methods commonly
NsOSi
entirely fail in detecting student Of
tenders against law and order. An
entirely different system of procedure |
has to be form ulated and carried out, |
aud even then success is doubtful. For |
instance, there is d street lamp at the
corner of Library and High Sire cts bac k |
of the Yale l brary; and despite the
t forts OF the pol ce, that street lamp
has not remained whole twenty -four
consecutive hours for thirty years.
The writer stripped the bands
off three dials of the Yale
I'm versity clock, and treas ured
5a EN- up a. precious mementOes of the
nemora bic raid for many ayear. He
Vas never discovered. although wrath,
10Th official ard unofficial hung over
he head Of the man who got away
With those clock hands for many day.
twenty Prince ton freshmen sat down
II chape! one fine morning and found |
hens elves unable to rise Without
pecial effort, and an inexpli;u bic
-earnif g on the part of the bosoms of
heir pautAlCOns to cling lovingly to =.
he seats. The seat had bt en- badaub- =.
d with some very sticky substance,
nd twenty pairs OF pants were ruined. :
entire books might be written of col !
eye pranks. ana truthful tales too:
nd the discovery of the students who :;
o these things is a great rarity. The E
rriter's chum, university oarsman,
hot to pieces for three consecutive
lights street lamp on College street
Jew Haven, almost under the nose of d
le very policeman specially stationed :.
} protect it. He was not caught.
Ia our larger Institutions of learning,
udents are now older than they were =
the early years OF the course. there =
more of feeling Of dignity which II
Isl riots lawlcss iuclinatiors, and the 81
spOsitiOn to engage in such exhibit u
ons is by no means what it was once.
ne affair at Harvard square is to be 4
,gre ted. II was undoubtedly the -
Ork Of some drunken freshman. and p
cal sentiment Is so strongly sg iinst | -
'ything OF this kind that no repet.- "
on OF the Ofense need be feared. W