Word: canes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...days of class rushes, cane fights and similar barbarisms are gone by for Harvard undergraduates, for which profound thanks are due. What little excuse there remained for the rush has been absolutely done away with in recent years by the presence of persistent and vicious outsiders who monopolized a large share of the proceedings. For those men in 1912 who have not yet become acquainted with our ways of conducting affairs, and for certain restless elements in the Sophomore class, who can present not even a plea of ignorance, let it be said that the first Monday of College...
...date of the annual sophomore freshman cane spree has been fixed for the evening of November...
...meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and "The Cratchets' Christmas Dinner"; from Henry Esmond, the part in which Lady Castlewood explains to Lord Hamilton Esmond's right to be present at the marriage of Beatrix; and from "Vanity Fair," the passage in which Rawdon Crawley surprises Becky with Lord Steyn; "The Cane-Bottom Chair," "The Age of Wisdom" and "The End of the Play...
...reading Dickens and Thackeray this evening--in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock--Mr. Copeland will select from "David Copperfield," "A Tale of Two Cities," "Henry Esmond," and "The Book of Snobs." The reading will include also "The Cane-bottomed Chair," Mr. Molony's Account of the Ball," and "The Ballad of Bouillabaisse...
...cultivated sugar-cane is grown wholly from cuttings or "sets," as they are called, and this practice has been carried on from time immemorial, until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments...