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Last night the week long mystery of the Yale Fence came to a formal and very appropriate close. Harvard's famous jester has completed what promises to be a famous jest, and those upon whom the trick was turned have availed themselves of that grace which is too often overlooked in the heat of an unpleasant moment. To laugh when the joke is on oneself only makes a good thing better.

There was obviously no malice in the Lampoon's sally with an old tradition, and the editors of that organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent.

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