INCREDIBLE DESTRUCTION

It is almost impossible to conceive of a motive for the vandalism reported yesterday afternoon from Lowell House. Theft might explain the disappearance of an entire canvas, but could not account for the cutting of the face from a large-sized portrait.

Scarcely more credible is the theory that the damage, was caused by the sorry action of a would-be practical Joker. Among the traditions of every student community are treasured the ooups of the great practical jokers of its past--men famed for the astuteness and the climactic humor of their deeds. If the present bit of stupid destruction were intended in emulation of these deeds, it can only be judged as a miserable failure. More charitable would it be to attribute it to a move of simply insanity.