Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paine has decided to sell the famous yacht "Mayflower," as he "cannot give the time required next summer for the trial races in the event of another contest for the America's cup...
...prospects for making a good showing at the Inter-Collegiate games next spring, are unusually bright. But; as has often been said before, it is only by continued hard and faithful work on the part of every man on the team that Yale can hope to win the cup next year. - Yale News...
...great feature of the parade, however, was the great Mott Haven Cup, which now appeared, drawn on a low cart by two horses. It was ten feet high, and nine broad, was a very fair fac-simile of the cup itself, being made all the more realistic by being covered with silver paper. Seated on the rich folds of red cloth which swathed the base of the cup, were Messrs. J. M. Hallowell, '88, and H. D. Hale, '88, its proprietors. Immediately after the cup came a most...
LUDICROUS FEATURE.A large blue rag doll bearing a transparency "Yale A. A. I can't run but I can talk," was pushed along behind the cup in a perambulator by a small gamin in the Wesleyan colors. And a small train of "muckers" bound to the first with a rope and clad respectively in the colors of Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette, followed like captives behind a triumphal car. This was greeted with boundless enthusiasm along the whole route...
Some more hacks loaded with heavy graduates intervened between the Cup and the Law School. The drum corps of that body was excellently! drilled by that skilled tactician, Mr. J. A. Frye, and dressed in smart policemen's uniforms they formed a very pleasing feature of the show. Their leading transparency informed the public that they were "drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching...