Word: canes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were two lively "cane rushes" between the sophomore and freshman classes of Wesleyan University in the streets of Middletown Saturday. The sophomores were victorious in each case. No one was seriously injured...
...fond of relating how the Turks decapitated condemned prisoners. Standing in the middle of the room with his bright eyes flashing fire he would make with his hands each of the peculiar motions after the manner of a Turkish headsman. When he went out he carried a stout cane like a club, in the end of which was a long sharp spike. This served him as a defensive weapon, for the old man was very much afraid of robbers. On the street he always wore the same cap and red neckerchief which served him in his last years...
...Lafayette, the faculty acted as judges in the cane rush and congratulated the victorious sophomores...
...lung-tester; while in the background, squatted likewise on the pedagogical mat, is the instructor, whose chief business seems to be to keep up the rhythmical rocking and Babel of sound to its highest pitch. This he does by occasional adjuration, strengthened by applications of a long cane, which seems to be the chief badge of his profession, and by means of which he is able to reach the remotest delinquent without the trouble of rising from his seat...
Richards '85 of Yale is still compelled to use a cane...