DEMOLISHING A BUILDING ON THE CAMPUS

In the old days it was the custom to tear down buildings in a rather ingenious fashion. The strongest men in the college were chosen by vote and repaired to a position where a good foothold was assured, and then at a signal, and accompanied by the singing of a chanty, the strong men all pulled together and succeeded in wrecking anything that the rope was attached to. At the time that Butterfield was torn down last year some alumnus wrote in suggesting this method.