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...affairs. There is a remedy. At every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired to keep the non-paying spectators from encroaching upon the field. This they successfully accomplish during the progress of the game, and it would be in their power, by a judicious use of the cane, to keep back the howling mob until players and spectators had left the field. We venture to suggest that the management of the nine try this experiment, since it involves no additional expense...
...Advisory Conference Committee was organized at Williams in March 1884, and was only temporary, it being expected that as soon as the trouble arising from cane-rushing was settled, the committee would cease to exist. The original committee consisted of three men from each class, and three or four from the faculty, including the president, and the students on the committee were expected to be perfectly free to express their opinions in all discussions. The faculty hoping to thus obtain a better understanding of the views of the students, and a better means of communication with them. The committee...
...publish to-day an account of the Advisory Conference Committee which was first organized at Williams in the spring of 1884, for the purpose of set tling the difficulties which arose between the students and faculty concerning the cane rushes which at that time excited considerable comment in the press of the country. The object for which the Committee was called together was simply to settle this one question, but its action was so satisfactory, and conducive of such excellent results that it has since been made a permanent feature of the disciplinary system. The Committee consists of twelve student...
...keeping dogs! We look about us and feel at once at home when we catch sight of the frequent recurring name so familiar to our eyes, the classic "Bohn." We feel at once that we are in good society. Upon the walls are hung three fragments of a brown cane, a sign of "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral," a tennis racket, a heliotype copy of the University of Pennsylvania's famous challenge, a broken base ball bat, a baby's slipper, and a Yale man's hat. A strange collection. But what is that in the corner? It appears like...
...Miners" at Columbia had a mid-winter cane rush. '87 was victorious...