Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
Princeton Stories
By
Jesse Lynch Williams
FOURTH EDITION
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York = 1895
Copyright, 1895, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
To '92
| PAGE | |
| The Winning of the Cane, | 1 |
| The Madness of Poler Stacy, | 37 |
| The Hazing of Valliant, | 67 |
| Hero Worship, | 89 |
| The Responsibility of Lawrence, | 105 |
| Fixing that Freshman, | 139 |
| The Scrub Quarter-Back, | 177 |
| When Girls Come to Princeton, | 193 |
| The Little Tutor, | 209 |
| College Men, | 241 |
| The Man that Led the Class, | 277 |
⁂Acknowledgements are due Messrs. Harper & Brothers for permissionto republish "The Scrub Quarter-Back" and "When Girls Come to Princeton."
The modern Cane Spree is held in broaddaylight on University Field. It is avastly different affair from the Spree we used towatch with chattering teeth at midnight, kneelingon the wet grass in front of Witherspoon,with a full moon watching over West Collegeand Mat. Goldie and two assistants waiting bythe lamp-post to join in the fierce rush whichfollowed each bout.
Nowadays it is one of the regular events ofthe Annual Fall Handicap Games, and is advertisedin large special feature letters on the postershanging in the shop windows and on the bulletinelm. It is a perfectly proper and legitimateproceeding, and is watched like any other fieldevent from the bleachers and Grand Stand, withgirls there to catch their breath and say "Oh!"The class that wins is glad. They cheer awhileand then watch the final heat of the 2.20.
In our day you could seldom see much ofanything, and there was nothing proper aboutit. But it was one of the things a fellow lived4for, like Thanksgiving games and Spring Term.To win a cane for one's class was an honor of alifetime, like playing on the 'Varsity, or winningthe Lynde debate. Men are still pointed outwhen back at Commencement as th