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ggm on Nov 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The day MIT won the Harvard-Yale game

Imperial College London, 1940s, the engineering students winched a car onto the roof. Apparently they hid sheer-legs down trousers (oxford bags were in again) and constructed a viable winch from short lengths, hidden ropes &c.

I know the modern MIT prankery is pretty big, but I just wanted to say it does happen at other universities.

seanhunter on Nov 21, 2018 [–]

+1. Students at my father's engineering class at another uni allegedly dismantled a lecturer's car and reassembled it inside their lecture hall.

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