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...victim of the shooting, ran straight by the president, and was pursued by Professors Moore and Pike, the latter drawing his revolver and crying, "Halt, or I will shoot you!" This threat incited the young man to greater speed, and he was closely followed, Professor Moore using his cane about the arms and shoulders of the fugitive with good effect. When they reached a vacant lot in front of Professor Pike's residence Paine fell, and, before he could rise, was caught, it is claimed, in a shower of blows from Professor Moore's stick. He gained his feet, crying...
...keeps a little puppy dog, I has a little cane...
This noon the peaceful stillness of Williamstown was broken by the diabolical class yells of '84 and '85 - the freshmen and sophomores were engaged in a cane rush. The sophomores, it seems, had previously sent to Troy to have some proclamations printed, which they purposed to post tonight throughout the town, giving to the freshmen permission to carry canes on and after the first of next term. The freshmen some how got wind of the scheme, and determined to get ahead of them. Accordingly they formed in a body at the gym. after the noon recitation hour and marched...
With a 'broidered bag and a bamboo cane...
...suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld. Clad cap-a-pie in chain armor he surveyed with sweeping glance the whole quadrangle. His single offensive weapon - a sword-cane - he used with such skill and precision that he could transfix an enemy with it every time at an angle of forty-five degrees. The conditions which he laid down in fighting were of the most desperate nature...