mackinaw

Two urban legends from my time. They may be true or false, but they were widely believed.

1. Reed's administration was known to be very tolerant of the eccentricities of students. As long as you followed the Honor Principle, (and, of course, if you didn't screw up badly in your studies) you could pretty much do what you wanted. But there was a story that one Reedie in the past had been kicked out of school for peeing on a dean. I don't know what it was about. I was told by some "old Reedie," however, that the student actually had only peed on the dean's desk, not the dean. Now that makes more sense.

2. One Reedie was arrested for loitering in downtown Portland at 2 in the morning. He was apparently standing on a street corner doing nothing but reading Chaucer (or some such heady literature). Why was he standing on the corner reading Chaucer in downtown Portland at 2 AM? Because that's where the street lamp was.