Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thus, in the three sports upon which Yale concentrates all her energy and forces, we see her superiority in one counterbalanced by Harvard's supremacy in the two others. But Harvard can do other things as well. For the past three years we have held the Mott Haven cup; since the advent of lacrosse we have never been beaten at that game, and we now hold the championship of the United States. In these two sports Yale has never made a showing. As to best college records in general athletics, Yale holds two, while Harvard comes to the front with...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes has written an exceedingly graceful letter of thanks to his pupils in the first year of the Medical School, who lately presented him with a "loving cup" of farewell. His letter concludes as follows: "I hope that when another hundred and fifty years have passed away, some descendant of mine will say, as he lifts this cup, and reads the name it bears, 'He, too, loved his labor and those for whom he labored, and the students of the dead nineteenth century remembered their old teacher as kindly, as gracefully, as generously, as the youth...
...gray-haired practitioners, assembled to hear their old teacher give his last lecture. The advent of the doctor was marked by the rising of the pupils, and as their clapping ceased, one of the members of the school presented him, in behalf of his last class, a beautiful "Loving Cup," inscribed with a quotation from one of the "poet's" own poems. This proof of the esteem of his pupils was a hard blow to the doctor, but the inevitable photographer and his camera gave him time to recover sufficiently to begin his lecture. There were three times...
...Oelrich cup won by the Harvard lacrosse team over Yale, Princeton, New York University, Bloomfield lacrosse club, and New York club, at New York, on the 28th of October, has arrived and will be on exhibition at Bartlett's during the next few days. The cup was presented to the U. S. National Lacrosse Association for annual competition at New York city. It is very artistic in design and workmanship...
...Flannery, secretary of the National Lacrosse Association, explains that the delay in forwarding the Oelrichs cup to the Harvard Lacrosse Club was simply owing to its being necessary to repair a damage to the cup which happened to it while it was on exhibition. The $300 bonds for its safe-keeping which the winning club is required by the rules to give were not asked from Harvard in advance, and it was not because they were not completed that the cup was not forwarded sooner...