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...letter has recently been received at the CRIMSON office from Mr. Francis R. Appleton, '75, containing full information in regard to the Beacon Cup spoken of in a previous issue in connection with the class racess...
...appears to have been first set up about 1858, as a prize for the winners of the "Beacon Cup Regatta." In that year a crew of Harvard men rowed against all comers, and in the same year there is a record of the Beacon Cup Regatta, in which the Harvard crew won a three-mile race from seven others. President Eliot rowed in the Harvard boat and the bow oar was Mr. Alexander Agassiz. The complete make-up was: 1, B. W. Crowninshield (stroke); 2, C. Crowninshield; 3, C. W. Eliot; 4, J. H. Ellison; 5, R. B. Gelston...
...being inscribed on a parchment until the year 1877, after which time, for some unaccountable reason, the cup is not mentioned as the prize for the class races. It was the custom to give each member of the winning crews a small silver cup as a souvenir of the Beacon...
...VARSITY Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs.- All men be at the University Club on Beacon street at 7.45 sharp...
...announced that the Beacon cup, for which the class crews formerly contested, will again be offered to the winner of the regular class race. This old silver cup bears the names of winning crews for several years preceding '75, but it has not been competed for since about that date. Mr. R. H. Appleton '75 has had the cup burnished up, and it is probable that a platter will be presented to go with it, in order to provide space for the names of the winning classes up to the present time, in a complete record...