ELEAZAR-WHO??
Dartmouth's elusive and mysterious bard, Eleazar, has again drawn campus attention during the past month, although this time it was rather the efforts of others to establish his identity than his own veiled movements which started the commotion.
Staff members of the Jack-o-Lantern had spent many long and fretful hours in trying to discover the person who had managed to retain his anonymity after contributing a weekly column of verse and light prose to The Dartmouth for a year. Then, in their issue just before Thanksgiving, the Dartmouth funsters appeared with a feature article exposing Eleazar, who, it was explained, was none other than one of their own staff men—Dick Spong. Abundant proof was given, including a facsimile of a letter written by Spong to the International Printing Corporation in Plainfield, N. J. for an additional order of his especially embossed "Eleazar" stationery. But hardly had the Jack-o been placed upon the newsstands when a succession of telegrams began to reach The Dartmouth office signed Eleazar and claiming the expose to be a hoax, to which, the sender stated, he was already preparing an answer for the next morning's paper. About an hour later he phoned in person, and in a obviously muffled and disguised voice said, "In Baker Library is a book, the name of which is The Hoax, by Italo Svevo. It's number is Fi-S355h. In this book will be found my copy." A heeler was immediately dispatched and returned with the two green-typed, monogrammed pages which showed that the Spong exposure was purely a playful jesture on the part of the Jack-o-bites. A few days later The Dartmouth made it's own reciprocal exposure, naming as Eleazar Proprietor George Gitsis of the Campus Cafe, and also offering abundant proof and a facsimile from George to his printing company.
Through all of this throwing back and forth of fake exposures, however, the identity of the real Eleazar remained as dark and uncertain as ever, and though accusations are pointed at everyone from Dean Chamberlin and Professor Eddy to the Janitor in Wheeler, no proof has yet been established.
