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Henry Noble MacCracken,* President of Vassar College: "A cane which once spanked Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, when he returned home after running away, was presented to our institution. This cane will be used by the students in leading cheers and songs...
...cane which had formerly been carried by Daniel Webster, Hon. 1804, was presented to Professor Winter at the dinner as the gift of an anonymous donor...
...American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists conferred the custody of its honorary gold-headed cane upon Dr. William H. Welch, distinguished head of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. The cane was established in 1919 and first presented to Dr. Harold C. Ernst, of Harvard, who died last year. It is held throughout the lifetime of the recipient...
...Welch of Baltimore. He receives the pathological and bacteriological gold-headed cane...
...perfection the tones of human speech and song. In this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus is said to have constructed one so perfect that his pious pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the machine with a cane, saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel sounds could not be made to sound truly. For a long time organ manufacturers have tried to fashion...