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holyfamilypenguin4,5593
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
Bridewell Chicago.
January 8, 1899. Chicago Daily Tribune. Visit to Adolph Sturm at Bridewell in Chicago.
Study meted of punishment. The room where the young offenders are punished was next shown. The spanking paddles were passed from hand to hand. They are of heavy leather on and one-half inches wide, and three foot long. The exact amount of punishment inflicted depends largely on the strength and will of the punisher. A strong man could do considerable injury to a slight lad, and the exact amount of pained doled out to each youth rests solely with the person doing the whipping. Some of the Aldermen remained a few minutes in the dark cells previously used for punishment, and as he stepped into the light remarked that he would rather “take a licking” then stay in there an hour.
Adolph Sturm
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
Maybe not the earliest but goes back a few years. Cats and Mats may not be too pleased with the Cats and New Zealand controversy. 
Most recently, Renee, et al, mentioned in their TWP site. Much too flimsy to punish the likes of A_L. 
Miss Phillips had one of those Paddle Ball paddles, without the ball and band, painted bright red.
There is an iconic scene of the paddle ball with Marilyn Monroe in “Misifits” posted priorly. Who can get enough of her?
New delightful post.
Miss Phillips had one of those Paddle Ball paddles, without the ball and band, painted bright red.
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These toys been around for a long time and must have been improvised both for home and school use.
Posted yesterday under Moonlightin thread. Whether that paddle is the same used in the game is anyone’s guess. It does sound a lot more formidable. It’s interesting that Loretta gets paddled and whipped as in two forms of instruments of correction in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. The paddle probably a more formal one used more in the school than the home.
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter By Loretta Lynn
One time we got a new teacher that had only one arm, and we figured we’d test him out right away. But he made up for the arm he didn’t have with a red paddle, and he just about wore us out. I don ‘t know how he did itbut we never bothered him again.
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
Oops. Try this.
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KKxyz3,59957
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
HH,
I hope you don’t mind that I have hotlinked here to the photo you posted to the Computing Corner thread.
This photo is half of a stereoscopic pair and the last of a series showing an amusing staged classroom incident, circa 1906.
The paddle looks rather narrow. The boy is being held rather than “willingly” submitting perhaps suggesting that school paddling,
although well known, had not yet become a well-engrained custom in 1906. The teacher’s choice of plaid trousers seems unfortunate.
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
The first edition of the Oxford dictionary was published in parts over more than four decades, beginning in 1888. http://www.oed.com/
Volume 7 includes mention paddle as an instrument for administering corporal punishment to slaves, etc. It also recognises paddle as verb = to beat a person with a paddle (spank).
A new English dictionary on historical principles
founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society
Edited with the assistance of many scholars and men of science.
Volume 7 (O & P), published 1909 by Clarendon Press in Oxford.
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HH2012836
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
Hi KK, you said “<em>I hope you don’t mind that I have hotlinked here to the photo you posted to the Computing Corner thread</em>.” That’s perfectly OK!
You are right, that scene is the last of a 3-scene series (I checked and I have them all), where the boy being paddled is as a result of his teasing the boy sitting directly in front of him. Also, the evidence strongly suggests this is an American school scene – it is hard to see on this slide, but the map directly behind the teacher’s head is the USA. I’ll attempt to create another thread to show the other 5 paddling scenes I have discovered for those interested.
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KKxyz3,59957
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
There is no evidence that school paddlings were derived from fraternity practice. Both seem to have started at about the same time. Both seem to be largely confined to the USA so may have a common origin.
It is possible school use of the paddle influenced fraternity practice. Students paddled at school might have been more amenable to fraternity paddlings.
It is possible fraternity use the paddle influenced high school use via graduate teachers with fraternity experience.
Some fraternity paddlings seem to have been very severe.
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holyfamilypenguin4,5593
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
Marquette paddle maker wonders why boys buy so many of them. Enough to kill a cow. KK, after the nice thing you said about me, I’ll take gently teased as an apology.
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KKxyz3,59957
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K4 … 30,6753041
Painesville Telegraph (Ohio) Nov 20, 1935. Page 3.
Is Paddle-maker For University 32 Years COLUMBIA, Mo., Nov. 20. Wayne Allen is recognized as official paddlemaker for the University of Missouri. He has been at it 32 years along with resultory work at piano tinkering.
In 1923 Allen advertised: “Allen’s’ paddles have made lasting impressions on Mizzou freshmen for the past 25 years.”
During that time Allen estimates he has made thousands of paddles.
“I’ve made paddles out of every kind of wood that grows,” he says. “Rosewood was the favorite in prosperous times. Some fraternities favored mahogany, but seasoned oak is favorite now.
“I have made them out of ebony.”
Styles in paddles change, Allen declares. Some years students want heavy two-handed ones. Other years they require shorter, lighter blades. He has to be something of a draughtsman. The engineers send the paddlemaker specifications drawn like architect’s plans for a building.
“Engineers’ paddles must weigh just so much and must be just exactly so many 64th of an inch thick.”
Agriculture students want them tough and strong.
One of Allen’s masterpieces was an explosive paddle which concealed a percussion cap. When the wood was brought in forcible contact with luckless freshmen the resulting blast was – very amusing.
He now is attempting to devise a set of paddles which will emit pleasant tones when in use.
Allen’s paddles for women are popular. They are made of soft wood and are considerably wider than the male type.
And he not only makes the disciplinary woods, but also – for a sum – constructs form-fitting paddle protectors for luckless frosh. The paddle-proof, made-to-measure armor is made of piano felt.
The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
Freemasonry is a fraternal, often secretive organization that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million.
Most “Lodges” have initiations and some have used the paddle. US university fraternities may have borrowed some of their practices from the freemasons.
It is unclear when or why the paddle was adopted by some freemasons.
It is unclear if there is any connection between mason and school use of the paddle. Perhaps they share a common origin.