Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sometimes spend an evening out at the urgent request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished the hostess by almost shrieking out. "Tea! boiled hay!" At another time he manifested in a singular way his distaste for the society of the gentler sex. While talking with a friend in a reception room, a man approached and said that there were...
...well to make a slight review of the past, to see if we cannot gain some inspiration from it to aid us in the future. Considered in an athletic point of view, the past year has been moderately successful;-to be sure we put the Mott Haven Cup again to our credit and earned all the rowing events in which we were represented, but in base-ball and foot-ball, the sports in which the popular interest is especially centered, we were weighed in the balance and found wanting. It is easy to see what caused our discomfiture...
...base-ball field to do their utmost to improve this opportunity, and by their actions to show that the so called "evils of professionalism" are more than counter balanced by the advantage to be gained by profiting by the experience of professionals. As to retaining the intercollegiate cup this year, we are not so sanguine. It is evident that we lost much good material with the exit of '83, and it remains to be proved whether they have any worthy successors among the lower classmen. We must therefore urge everyone who has any athletic ability, to endeavor to turn...
Yale '81's Class Cup goes to the baby of a colored member of the class, this youngster being the first of his race to have this distinction...
...programme of the Country Club for Thanksgiving day, as far as arranged, is a meeting of the Myopia fox hunt at 10 o'clock, pigeon shooting for the club cup at 11 o'clock, and, after the usual lunch, a game of foot-ball in the afternoon...