26 Feb 1965
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Newspaper
Oberlin Review
Location
Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1965
Page
1
A 19th century view by AL Sunway and co authors of Oberlinites notes Oberlin College humor aims to amuse without harming property or people. Historian Richard Latrop, son of a former professor, reflects on limits of campus stunts and the balance of playful mischief with decorum.
Longtime Oberlin residents recall playful antics by Richard P Lothrop and other students. They recount resurfacing Tappan Square with grass and turnips sprouting in spring, a campus scene of mischievous pride. Lothrop recalls Dean Holdeman confiscating license plates to curb car presence.
A chaotic finals week at a college library sees masked parties, disturbances, and a fatal collapse after a prank spree. Students flood aisles, stage disruptive acts, and an exhausted reader collapses. clergy and medical staff arrive as officials declare the victim dead during the chaotic scene. The incident ends with a flag raising at Tappan Square in June.
The piece argues stunts split into two camps, escape from campus restraints and civil disobedience against the sober status quo. It cites campus incidents and a voyeuristic portrait prank as examples while noting the era’s pranks by students and observers.
Emeritus Secretary Donal Jave and others recount 1888 to 1897 college doings at Oberlin. Pranks include moving a boulder from Plum Creek to Tappan Square, guarding it with a felon, lifting a chapel bell corpse, stealing a handcart to Lorain after a game, removing Walks, hanging clotheslines and undergarments, and prank statues and signs around Peters, Finney Chapel, and Hall Auditorium.
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