Senior Canes
When A. Herbert Armes, class of 1885, asked friends to autograph his walking stick more than 100 years ago, he transformed a simple 19th-century fashion accessory into a class tradition.
When A. Herbert Armes, class of 1885, asked friends to autograph his walking stick more than 100 years ago, he transformed a simple 19th-century fashion accessory into a class tradition.
Senior Canes When A. Herbert Armes, class of 1885, asked friends to autograph his walking stick more than 100 years ago, he transformed a simple 19th-century fashion accessory into a class tradition. For decades, a student simply didn't graduate without having his own class cane signed by classmates. Charles Dudley, class of 1902, designed an Indian-head cane that became the senior standard until the fad faded mid-century. While the occasional cane still appears at Commencement, chances are that when today's seniors carry a big stick, they're going hiking.
GALLERY OF CANES: The 1976 Eleazar Wheelock-head cane, which never caught on; cane belonging to William Morgan, class of 1890; a 1991 DartmouthReview revival of the Indian head; skull-capped stick of F.P. Lord, DMS class of 1890; cane of Walter Blossom, class of 1887; Lord's 1898 undergraduate staff; walking stick of Daniel Webster, class of 1801; Armes's original trendsetter; and Dudley's Indianhead design on a cane owned by Roger Evans, class of 1916.
