Last year the serenity of one of the entries of Thayer was suddenly disturbed by a violent explosion, which, on examination, proved to have been caused by a large cannon-cracker which some reckless student had fastened to the door of one of the rooms and then ignited. Although there was some ground for this outrage, the victim of the assault being a musical friend, the perpetrators were severely censured by the college for the folly and childishness of their act, and it was hoped that such an affair would never be repeated. Wednesday night, however, some miscreants, for they deserve the name, disfigured one of the rooms of Thayer by branding, seemingly with a hot iron, the initials of the occupants upon the door. Such conduct as this is worthy of only a boarding school, and should be severely frowned upon by the students.
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The Princeton Cage.
