Extra Credit Questions

[STS Lincolnite]

(12-26-2014 02:08 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Hint #1: A newspaper in this city described Robert Lincoln as follows:

"He is a harum-scarum sort of a college chap, with just a trifle of the ‘fast' in his composure, we imagine."

Was it Buffalo? I seem to remember the "harum scarum" description but not the story of the sawing.

Strangely I think that someone also described RTL's son in law Warren Beckwith (whom Robert didn't approve of by the way) as a "harum scarum fellow". What exactly did the term harum scarum mean back in those days?