Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drawn sword, near the one who drank, to protect him from the knives of his enemies. Now a-days he generally takes a social glass himself at the same time. From the idea of pledging, "health" drinking was easily evolved In drinking a health to a Roman lady one cup was taken for each letter in her name, - a performance often attended with disasterous consequences. Giving a toast is synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom of putting toast, nutmeg and sugar into ale. To drink supernaculum was an ancient custom in England...
...necessity of doing their very best, for the chance of places on the Mott Haven team depends largely upon the records which are made at this and at the university meeting on Saturday. With eighty-five the college lost many men who have done much to retain the cup, and it is to eighty-nine that Harvard looks to fill their places...
...trust that the wishes of the officers of the association may be heeded, and that the students may by a generous attendance at tonight's meeting give proof of their interest in the organization to whose efforts we owe the annual return to Cambridge of the Mott Haven Cup...
...scratch races will be rowed on Saturday, Oct. 17th, at 12 m. Cups will be given as prizes in the following events, a cup for each man, including the coxswain...
...near approach of the fall meetings held by the Athletic Association induces us to say a word to the freshmen on the subject of track athletics. The Mott Haven Cup has now been ours for six consecutive years. To bring it again to Cambridge will require the most strenuous efforts on the part of the, whole college. The loss met with every year by the graduation of the athletes in the senior class can be made good only by recruits from among the freshmen. From them, then, the college expects a strong delegation to compete for the vacant places...