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witness that morning.Another interesting 3lory descending from those days was the account oS: the “Big Scrap'' be I ween the closes fit* ’03 and '04, when they were sophomores and freshmen, ilistaking the coilege for a military camp, and old Wallace Hal: for a bufct’.o I’iclrl, the uvo pugnacious elases staged a battle-royal upon the top flcov. The immediate occasion for this outbreak was the audacity displayed by the sophomores in flying their colors JYoni the cupola of the old building. In the resulting conflict the class of ’03 disjointed and destroyed, by means of innocent tools such as saws and axes, the entire wooden stairway loadiug to the top floor. When: peace finally reigned, each member of the c’.ass, according to 1‘iufessor Hume, ws relieved of five dollars to help pay for the reparation.As tho story goes, v.-Jien this class began bo cast about for an appropriate gift, they decided upon a Civil wav cannon, which they were going to place half way between Wallace Hall and Broadway, with its mu2zlo pointing buwards the cupola, guarding, as it were, those troublesome colors. Negotiations with the Federal Government resulted in Lhe grant of a cannon from the l'tock Island arsenal to ^lonmour.h College. Upon its arrival it was placed in a warehouse L'or safekeeping until commencement.Later when the hoys went down to secure ;he cannon, they found it gone, with not a solitary clue available as to its fate. Legal proceedings, which jn the heat o;ll the excitement wore instigated against the owners of the warehouse, were shortly dropped. Damo Kumor has it, that, white the carriage was thought to have boen identified in a heap of .ashes at Cedar Creek, the cannon, itself, is today within plain sight of the college,A much-needed content walk leading from Wallace Hall to the Auditorium was tho appreciated gift of the class of 1904.When the present library was built the class of 'Oo made it possihle to-enhance the attractiveness of the en-(Contlnued on Page Two.)
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Monmouth College Newspaper Oracle
Monmouth, Illinois, US
Tue, Nov 23, 1920
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