# Talk:Charles R. Apted

One snippet reads, intriguingly: The then superintendent of the Harvard yard police was Charles Apted. On one occasion he was called by a lady living in Ridgeley Hall, a private apartment adjoining Claverly Hall, a Harvard dormitory. She complained to Mr. Apted that the...  Apparently from [1], and with all due respect to the judge, this is an old joke (though it's not entirely impossible that he's the origin of it).`
pranksters secret
"Yale Gets Hot Under Collar As Mascot Stays At Harvard". The Baltimore Sun. 20 March 1934.
EEng (talk) 02:30, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

[2] NYT search, has much in copyright
Grapefruit incident: [3] [4][5]
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/1043710 -- implies he had an AB???
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1940/2/7/colonel-apted-plans-to-resign-as/ -- reports the actual event instead of plans
[6] Clapper pilferage

Great job EEng. Getting great readership too.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 09:54, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Yeah [7] but from where? (Thanks, though. As you know I enjoy writing articles with all these droll quotes.) EEng (talk) 03:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Parking here (for the moment) sources about the possibly (or possibly not) notable Austin Kingsley Jones:

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/html/1997/so97/02138.html
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/1085701
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1914/4/11/austin-kingsley-jones-paustin-kingsley-jones/
https://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/?a=d&d=Chronicle19140418-01.2.152& (The Cambridge Chronicle 18 April 1914 p.12)
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/1005543
EEng 01:09, 29 May 2024 (UTC)