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the members of each graduating class are recorded, and which is left in the hands of the Class Secretary." CLASS CANE. At Union College, as a mark of distinction, a _class cane_ was for a time carried by the members of the Junior Class. The Juniors, although on the whole a clever set of fellows, lean perhaps with too nonchalant an air on their _class canes_.--_Sophomore Independent_, Union College, Nov. 1854. They will refer to their _class cane_, that mark of decrepitude and imbecility, for old men use canes.--_Ibid._ CLASS CAP. At Hamilton College, it is customary for the Sophomores to appear in a _class cap_ on the Junior Exhibition day, which is worn generally during part of the third term. In American colleges, students frequently endeavor to adopt distinctive dresses, but the attempt is usually followed by failure. One of these attempts is pleasantly alluded to in the Williams Monthly Miscellany. "In a late number, the ambition for whiskers was made the subject of a remark. The ambition of college has since taken a somewhat different turn. We allude to the class caps, which have been introduced in one or two of the classes. The Freshmen were the first to appear in this species of uniform, a few days since at evening prayers; the cap which they have adopted is quite tasteful. The Sophomores, not to be outdone, have voted to adopt the tarpaulin, having, no doubt, become proficients in navigation, as lucidly explained in one of their text-books. The Juniors we understand, will follow suit soon. We hardly know what is left for the Seniors, unless it be to go bare-headed."--1845, p. 464. CLASS COMMITTEE. At Harvard College a committee of two persons, joined with the _Class Secretary_, who is _ex officio_ its chairman, whose duty it is, after the class has graduated, during their lives to call class meetings, whenever they deem it advisable, and to attend to all other business relating to the class. See under CLASS BOOK. CLASS CRADLE. For some years it has been customary at Harvard College for the Senior Class, at the meeting for the election of the officers of Class Day, &c., to appropriate a certain sum of money, usually not exceeding fifty dollars, for the purchase of a cradle, to be given to the first member of the class to whom a child is born in lawful wedlock at a suitable time after marriage. This sum is intrusted to the hands of the _Class Secretary_, who is expected to transmit th
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