About time? Hour hand returned to Cambridge University after 1930s prank

The hour hand of a university chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy has been returned almost a century later. Trixie Baker inherited the hour hand on the death of her father, Geoffrey Hunter Baker, a Cambridge graduate who died in 1999 aged 83. Baker and an unnamed fellow undergraduate had taken the clock hands from Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, under cover of darkness and replaced them with cardboard copies. “These worked very well until it rained,” Trixie Baker said. The college replaced the hands and it appears the

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