The attack was carried out by three masked males using cudgels studded with nails.
No bullying of the innocent is allowed and it is encouraged to take up the cudgels to uphold justice and truth.
According to James Heath in his Flagellum, " he was more famous for his exercises in the fields than in the schools, being one of the chief match-makers and players at football, cudgels, or any other boisterous game or sport."
In gratitude we ought to take the cudgels and wave his guitar like a flag after some private conquest, screaming at the sky.
That unknown quantity is the spirit of the army, that is to say, the greater or lesser readiness to fight and face danger felt by all the men composing an army, quite independently of whether they are, or are not, fighting under the command of a genius, in two--or three-line formation, with cudgels or with rifles that repeat thirty times a minute.