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On Thursday, June 4, a plaque was unveiled on the MIT side of the Massachusetts Avenue bridge to commemorate the night in October 1958 when Oliver Smoot '62, was used to measure and mark the span from Boston to Cambridge. Specifically noting the bridge's length of 364.4 Smoots (+/- 1 ear), the plaque, a gift of the MIT Class of 1962, honors the prank's 50th anniversary.
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A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 10, 2009 (download PDF).
