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...Riggs does not recover from his injuries in time for the game. Today's practice was open, and it gave an opportunity of estimating our probable strength against Harvard. The prospect is very much improved. Upon petition of the student body the faculty decided to allow the cane spree to take place at night as was the custom some years ago, the seniors and juniors pledging themselves to prevent any objectionable features on account of which it was abolished. The annual fall handicap games took place on Oct 21. On account of the strong wind on that day the events...
...custom is the wearing of the academic cap and gown by the seniors on Sundays during the whole year and not merely for a few weeks preceding commencement. The other is one of our most time-honored customs. Formerly each year in the fall occurred the freshman-sophomore "cane spree." This was held some moonlight night on the grass in front of Witherspoon Hall. Three men from each class, a heavy weight, middle weight and light weight, contested in pairs for the possession of a stout stick called by courtesy a cane. Of later years the thing degenerated into...
...Holiday Outing is capable of interesting everyone who enjoys out-of-door sports. The number contains stories of hunting both birds and large game and accounts of bicycling, skating and the old Princeton cane spree, all of which are highly entertaining. The illustrations in this Outing deserve particular attention-they are much better than those found in the ordinary magazine. Those who are interested in western mountain life will enjoy reading "Shasta of Siskiyou," and "Lost in the Rockies," a story of Avalanche Gulch, near Helena, Montana...
...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...