Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oelrichs Cup, won by Harvard last spring, has at last been sent to the manager of the lacrosse team. It will be placed on exhibition at Leavitt & Pierce's on Monday...
...Lacrosse management expect that the Oelrichs cup will be here in a few days. It will be placed on exhibition when it arrives, and then placed in a safe-deposit for safe keeping...
...support our previous victories? To say nothing of the want in itself of a Grand Stand, which is greatly felt, it would give a boom to athletics which is much needed at present. Our spirit of over confidence is too great. The mere fact that the Mott Haven Cup has been in our gymnasium for the last six years won't bring...
...itself felt through the delicate apparatus at the observatory, and was carefully observed by Prof. Rogers and his assistants. As our local experiments in explosiology are supposed to have brought into prominence this branch of science, a description of the apparatus used by Prof. Rogers, seems of interest. A cup of Mercury is placed either directly upon the earth or upon a stone shaft which rests on bed rock. Upon the surface of the Mercury is thrown the image of illuminated pin holes in a metal card; or, in some instruments, any other image is used such as the reflection...
...formed by a looped wire terminating in an indicative point, upon which rests a heavy weight, the whole being suspended from a firm support. This, however, has not the advantage of such great delicacy as the mercury cup and is used in the more transient stations of the various surveys...