<p>When I was a tour guide, I learned a lot of these. Supposedly students used Revolutionary War cannonballs to heat their rooms in Hollis Hall by baking them in the fireplace for a while and then rolling them into the center of the room to radiate heat.</p>
<p>There was a fire in 1764 that consumed all of the books in John Harvard’s original donation to the college, except for one called “Christian Warfare Against the Devill, World, and Flesh,” which is still on display. The book survived because a student had sneaked it out of the library in violation of the rules. That part is definitely true – the legend is that when he returned the precious relic, the College thanked him, and then expelled him for borrowing it without permission.</p>