Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expectant candidate invites his most intimate friends, and the night is spent in merry toasts and numberless bottles of champagne. Herein the German student shows how superior is his mind to that of our college man who sits up all night with nothing to cheer him but a cup of cold coffee and a wet cloth around his aching head. Arrayed in dress coat and white gloves, the candidate, followed by several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student is invited to read...
...Yale News editorially makes an appeal for candidates for the Mott Haven team, saying that, as "Harvard won the cup through five second prizes" last year, the inferior men ought to be encouraged to try as well as the first prize men. Passing over the circumstance that next year there will probably be no first prizes lost through mismanagement, as was the case with us last year, the call of the News for the services of every capable man whether a fine athlete or not, should find an echo in our columns, in behalf of our team...
...class races at University of Pennsylvania will be rowed in eights this year. A strong effort is being made to have the Childs cup and intercollegiate races also rowed in eights...
...marked success both on land and water, and this year the prospect is bright. In general athletics, Harvard usually holds the lead by reason of more careful, intelligent and systematical training than her competitors have. There is no especial reason why she should not win the cup at Mott Haven again in 1886. In boating and base-ball many of the old men are here, and they will have the benefit of good training again. They will have to contend against crews and nines that were not nearly as strong as they were last season, and have suffered more serious...
...American Canoe Association has offered a cup valued at $300 as a prize for an inter-national canoe contest to be sailed in New York Bay next summer...