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...lung-tester; while in the background, squatted likewise on the pedagogical mat, is the instructor, whose chief business seems to be to keep up the rhythmical rocking and Babel of sound to its highest pitch. This he does by occasional adjuration, strengthened by applications of a long cane, which seems to be the chief badge of his profession, and by means of which he is able to reach the remotest delinquent without the trouble of rising from his seat...
Richards '85 of Yale is still compelled to use a cane...
...been characterized by perfect quiet." After reading through a few melancholy sentences about the absence of tin horns and other attendant instruments of rejoicing, we come to the main-spring which actuates the feeling of enforced quiet. "The freshman chirrups to his fellow freshmen, and carries a cane as the spirit moves him. Though he is small there is no fear in his soul. The days are quiet, and the nights are still more so. Occasionally some sophomore having assured himself that no angry freshman is abroad to injure him, steals forth to sample his neighbor's grapes, but this...
...Dearing of the second year Law School was presented with a gold-headed cane yesterday by his class-mates. Mr. F. C. Griswold made the presentation speech...
Mild sarcasm of the Courant regarding Harvard: "Not to carry a silver-headed cane to breakfast is considered in 'bad form,' and the man who does not own a real bull-pup is an outcast." We are crushed...