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...origin of cane rushes, perhaps, lies in the old faculty rule, once existing at some of our colleges, forbidding freshmen to carry canes. Now the tables are completely turned, and sometimes, as recently at Williams, the authorities especially encourage freshmen to carry canes...
...method of instruction in Greek at Johns Hopkins University is thus commented on in a late number of the N. Y. Post: "The rooms are of a good size, well lighted and handsomely furnished. The cocoa matting of the average college class room is replaced by Brussels carpets; and cane-bottomed chairs are substituted for hard wooden seats. All the works in the university on philology are collected together in this one building. The student then has everything at his elbow. In the seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand...
...cane rush between the freshman and sophomore classes resulted in a hard-earned victory for the latter, and the privilege of supplying sundry thirsty seniors and juniors with the sparkling zythum fell to the lot of the former, who, it must be said, "did noble...
...class of '86 at Cornell has challenged '85 to a cane rush...
...sophomores, have inaugurated the season of college follies by a rush last Tuesday. The freshmen formed in a body in front of Dartmouth Hall and called for the sophomores. The latter responded, and although the prospects at first favored the freshmen, as they had about twenty more men, the cane was "whooped up" into Reed Hall, the rendezvous of the seniors, before the sophomores' muscle, and a complete victory resulted for the upper class. The sophomores wore no garment except pantaloons, and had the upper part of their bodies greased. The rush was one of the most hotly contested...