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David Mouriquand

Missing Cambridge College clock hand returned nearly a century after student prank

A large clock hand stolen in a student prank has been returned to a Cambridge university after almost a century.

Under cover of darkness on one night in the 1930s, prankster Geoffrey Hunter Baker – a modern language student who studied in Cambridge from 1934 to 1937 - and an unknown undergraduate student replaced the hands of the chapel clock at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, with cardboard replicas.

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