With the bust of Charles William Eliot game from Eliot House Quadrangle, the Hanover boys in town, the College in confusion, and Apted in hewilderment, only the swift work of the Harvard CRIMSON traced down the facts in what might well have been the crime of the century.

Rapid investigation followed the loss of the bust and the CRIMSON's reporters eventually located the missing article in the Cambridge shop where it was being rebronzed.

Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, whom the CRIMSON phoned at 2:00 o'clock in the morning, said, "I don't know the first thing about anything.'