UNKNOWN VANDALS AMPUTATE LAMPY'S ANNIVERSARY ELM

When dwellers on Mt. Auburn Street awoke yesterday morning to their customary activities, they were startied by the sight of the little en-caged elm, that grew so debonaire in front of the Lampoon's front steps, hanging over its bars, bent and broken.

During the night some person or persons unknown, armed with a very sharp saw, contrived to reach through the bars and saw the stem of the tree nearly in two, so that the tree itself drooped over the top of its cage. No motive could be ascribed for what was apparently an act of malicious vandalism, and there are no clues to the guilty party.

The tree, a gift of the late J. T. Wheelwright '76, founder of the Lampoon, was planted with great ceremony on the Jester's fiftieth anniversary about two years ago. Although carefully watched and watered by Bob Lampoon, it had not burgeoned up to expectation in the Gold Coast atmosphere, and there have been rumors that it was to be removed.