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Word: canes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...latest number of the Brunonian severely criticizes the conduct of the Brown students who took part in a cane rush at the last Brown game on Jarvis Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/13/1884 | See Source »

...were treated to a spectacle yesterday that is a somewhat unusual one here ; the spectacle of a number of stalwart upper-class men from Brown seizing a solitary freshman, breaking his cane, and then going on their way rejoicing. It was significant as marking the peculiar views a Brown student seems to possess in regard to the dignity of the upper classes. Really, it was a ridiculous scene, and one quite unworthy of men who are students of any college at the present time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1884 | See Source »

Lost-Will the gentleman who took the black cane with silver top from Adam's restaurant last Thursday kindly return the same to the restaurant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 3/20/1884 | See Source »

Lost-Will the gentleman who took the black cane with silver top from Adam's restaurant last Thursday kindly return the same to the restaurant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 3/19/1884 | See Source »

...Williams the freshmen took a cane into the chapel and displayed it in the presence of the faculty. The sophs couldn't stand this, and a general rush ensued, which the faculty stopped with much difficulty. They soon had to stop another one, and disorder is yet rampant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/12/1884 | See Source »

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