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“Carrot Embedded in Cement”? An: Air Hockey Stick?This object is Located beside McMike academic? nSar the parking lot. This is tt cannon. Yes, it's true. The following is the srorv behind this prcsec*ontigiiriuion, taken from A History of Monmouth College Through !rs Fifth Qua~ter-Century. by 'villiurn Urban.In ihe lirsi decade of the century the United Stales government gave ihe college a Civil War cannon that was .0 be placed on the front campus nfiar^hfrfiag pole. The cannon duly arrived, but before it could be put into position, it cisappearcd; and in tpitc of very grcai efforts to find it. the cannon remained Blissing for fifty years. Doc” (Titiessen)jbecame intensely interested in a jinject to find it and he made several expeditions into the surruuiJing area in search of the artillery piece. Finally, with the help of students. electronic equipment and Wnis dropped by male members of. class of 19CM as to its possible whereabouts, began a search of it waters of Cedar Creek, five miles outside town. In 'itne. the vater corroded cannon was found. frigged triumphantly from Ihe creek hod, anil placed. at last oa the rumpus—b;i: no', quite as originally intended. Km wing the “taking wavs of students, “fix had a large, deep ring of cement poured into the ground south of McMichaeJ Science Hals. While the cemeni was slili wet, the^ujv? mu/./le downward, was sunk into the cement anti the hole allowed to dry under his watchful cyr}. Some time later students tried to “borrow” the cannon, hul ncir attempts failed■ The cannon, pa.iiicd a dillereut color e vet y ycai. still lies. mu/./.le down, houk leel iVum the old science building, his Ihird-ftoor ul'fice window..wljcre 1 'Doc cook see it every lime he looked outI* r4\ A
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Monmouth College Newspaper Oracle
Monmouth, Illinois, US
Tue, Sep 23, 1986
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