Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton conference committee is making efforts to abolish the cane spree...
...cane spree resulted in a draw, '91 and '92 each winning a cane and a half. Since this event, class feeling has largely subsided and all apparent animosities between the two lower classes have, for the present at least, been laid aside...
...annual cane-spree took place at Princeton last Wednesday by moon-light. '91 won one cane, '95 won the second, and the third was cut in two; the spree was therefore declared a draw...
...entering class is quite above the average in numbers, though it has done but little to show of what stuff it is made. The cane-spree has been postponed till the next moon, when it will have a chance to show what...
...cane-spree, an institution peculiarly Princeton's own, is a thing of the past and the verdant freshman now rejoiceth much. Special regulations were adopted this year to the effect that no foot-ball men should be allowed to spree. The freshmen, by superior coaching, took the first two canes, the light-weight and the middle-weight. The struggle for the heavy-weight cane was a stubborn contest; after working hard for one hour and forty minutes, neither man was able to wrest it from his opponent and the cane was divided, the freshmen thus getting 2 1-2 canes...