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These were the days when Copey's magnificent voice was holding students spellbound at evening reading sessions. Kittredge with his knobby cane and long white beard was prancing up and down classrooms making men memorize roams of Shakespeare. And unwanted Radcliffe was just beginning to infiltrate to the Yard. In 1922 no one worried about Harvard football. Everyone knew it was the best in the Ivy League...
...Nectar is a dilute solution of various sugars. Bees put it in uncapped comb-cells, evaporate it to honey by fanning it with their wings. If it contains too much sucrose (cane sugar), which would make it tend to crystallize, the bees add an enzyme (invertase) from glands under their thorax. Thus the sucrose is turned into levulose and dextrose, which taste almost as sweet...
...Daily Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated for injuries. Other class spirit activities described by the Princetonian this fall included the shaving of the heads of five freshmen, a series of thefts involving a hired airplane and the clapper to the Nassau hall bell, and the annual Cane Spree, which promptly initiated another riot...
...have had riotry among the upperclassmen in many different forms over the years. It has always been healthfully vigozous, but sometimes not quite harmless, as when one student died from injuries in the cane rush a great many years...
...sunny-and therefore cheap-side of the bull ring at Zitácuaro overflowed with boisterous aficionados. Noisiest of all was a group of hard-bitten charcoal makers from the Michoacán hills who had stoked up well with charanda (cane alcohol) and come to see the toreros kill six bulls. "Long live Michoacán and her sons of Pancho Villa!" they bellowed...