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...been pressed for exhibition space. "Pu-Pu-La," the much-talked-of celebrity, recently imported from Brockton, is expected to furnish the lion's share of amusement in the art of dodging. Crowds of strong men, however, will gather around the striking machine and the wheel of fortune. A cane board will be provided for the bolder members of the class. Much credit must be given the committee for securing a game especially invented for the occasion called "the tub and ball contest." For genuine fun, there will be nothing to equal this. But the crowning event of the evening...
...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...