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A room in the Massachusetts General Hospital was all that George F. Snell, Jr. '41 got for trying to shoot down the Lowell House bells last night.
In a fit of Spring fever Snell leaned out of the window of his room in Lowell G-42 and proceeded to bombard the famous bells with marbles from an improvised sling-shot made over from a cross-bow of his own design with which he has been practicing all winter.
All the height of this sport, feverishly excited by several bulls-eyes he had scored, Snell broke a blood vessel in his lungs and had to be removed to the hospital on a stretcher. The bells remained.
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