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Didn't Count On All That Paint!«nrfm^,/0iliwillR+a4rtteIe ha£ ^.re,cased by ibe College r.iblicitv De-cn sent 0 111'any and newspapers.I MONMOimi ILLINOIS - - - A college eomiacSoement is generallyconsidered tc be a dignified occasion, but at times the sober acad^W proceedings Have their lighter moments. caa.micse , Such the case at Monmouth College in early June, when the™ passes of 1903 and JfliH will get together to settle a fifty-year-old yriev-/)V ance once and for all.he ,?e troubll I11 stems from a Civil War cannon which the membersuiv£n1 d Ars0nal 10 P:»ce on the campus as a paumg gift Just before the cannon was presented it disappeared under lugbly mysterious circumstances, and no amount of searching could locate the weapon.A certain shadow of suspicion was cast on the class of 3901, and with good reason but m spite of a grand jury investigation and other heroic efforts by l9Ji the cannon s whoreabouts remained unknown.. s,° the ^tter rested for almost fifty years, enlivened only bv occasional searching parties from succeeding generations of college students, who had neard the cannon legend. Then in 1959 A. Wallace Barnes, a ii.ember of JC4 and now s rehred newspaper publisher from Albuquerque, 31, New Mexico, revealed that his class had indeed stolen the cannon,en Bnrnes also told how to locate the weapon, and in 1952 a searching:!j party finally pulled the long-lost cannon out of its fifty-year hidingplace in Cedar Creek, near Monmouth.A few weeks ago college officials had the cannon installed on the campus, just as the original donors had intended back in 1003.On Monday, June 7, Mr, Barnes and other members of the class of 1904 wjit meet by the cannon and give it back to the assembled mom-at bet's of toe class of 1903 who are able to be present, thus burying thet0 hatchet forever.r- The next day, Tuesday, June 8, commencement activities at Monts. nioutli college will get back on a more formal plane, as Clifford F. Hoodall president of United States Steel Corporation, delivers the commencement. address to a .graduating' class of 100.
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Monmouth College Newspaper Oracle
Monmouth, Illinois, US
Sat, May 22, 1954
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