…for the benefit of a pedantic fellow student whom I did not like, I pretended I had caught hydrophobia from a dog brain, and I started to bark and bite this colleague— now hysterical— in the leg. But the astute Oliver Strong, who came on the scene just as my victim, trying to escape, had upset an incubator, instead of disciplining me academically had other students hold a down and poured a bucket of sea urchins down my neck.

— As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser (Page 48 - 49)