Tear Gas Backfires As Sophs Try Skill on Girls

One section of the University community thought that the first gas attack of the war had been unleashed on Harvard Saturday night when a pen filled with tear gas went off, driving several people out doors for air.

Two Sophomores were demonstrating the lethal weapon to a couple of girls in their room when one of them lifted the plunger, and released the lachrymose vapor. Amid great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and many tears, the victims groped for windows and means of egress.

Only excuse of the perpetrators of the deed was that "we didn't know it was loaded."