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And then Hogboom himself burst in a side door , and it took seven of us to prevent him from reducing Perkins to a paste and frescoing him all over the chapel walls . Everybody was rattled but Prexy . I think Prexy 's circulation was principally ice water . When the row was over he got up and blandly announced that classes would take up immediately and that the Faculty would meet in extraordinary session that noon . How did we get out of it ? Well , if you want to catch the last car , old man , I 'll have to hit the high spots on the sequel . Of course , it was a tremendous scandal -- a memorial meeting breaking up in a fight .