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Chap Chances Chilly Charles, Is Immersed by Impish Ice

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Newton used an apple, Galileo a pendulum, and now the River Charles, has been unutilized in the interests of science. A curious and resourceful member of Adams House decided Saturday, while scrolling across the frozen stream, that further investigations were needed on the elasticity of ice.

Never one to heed the conservative "get a horse" counsel of his less scientific companions, the intrepid Gold Coaster chose the director approach. Trial and error showed him where the weak spots were, and gravity did the rest. "Water's pretty warm for January," he concluded, as he filed his application for the local Polar Bear club.

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