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Last month, class representatives of '85 and '86 faced each other over wooden bats to make almost 115 years, on and off, of "brutal" freshman-sophomore cane combat...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Undergraduates Continue Cane-Fighting Tradition | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...Cane wrestling lends its name to the extended Cane Spree, the annual competition in 15 athletic events between freshman and sophomores...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Undergraduates Continue Cane-Fighting Tradition | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...cane wrestling, anything goes...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Undergraduates Continue Cane-Fighting Tradition | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...adversaries in each bout grape a single three-foot wooden budget, and the object is to wrestle the cane free from both hands of the opponent...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Undergraduates Continue Cane-Fighting Tradition | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...meetings on subjects like time management. Tryouts for the glee club or the football team. Beer bashes. Join the struggle to save Lebanon; join the struggle to save Israel. At Princeton the freshmen and sophomores meet each other in a traditional series of games and rope pulls known as Cane Spree, which custom decrees that the freshmen lose. At Gettysburg College, the rituals of getting acquainted are even more folksy: a "shoe scramble" determines who will dance with whom. At Carleton, there is a fried-chicken picnic and square dancing on the grassy area known as the Bald Spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Ways to Wisdom | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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