Word: dan
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When Graves graduated, Dan stayed on. He became "Handsome Dan" and the Elis became the "Bulldogs." Dan died in 1898, and was mourned by the entire student body; he was stuffed and put in his present resting place, a sealed glass case in the Trophy Room of Payne-Whitney Gymnasium...
...years before Yale upperclassmen again decided a live mascot was needed. In 1932 they collected pennies from freshmen and purchased Handsome Dan R. Originally titled "Dour Doruna," the dog lived up to his name by quickly earning the brand of a line. The kidnapping episode soiled him in Blue eyes, and the fact that he came down with worms before the Harvard-Yale game of the next year did his reputation little good...
...death, Handsome Dan III was presented by Alumni to Coach Raymond (Ducky) Pond. A huge white animal, looking much like the original, Dan III soon shamed the Elis by showing a yellow streak. He was afraid of crowds and shunned his Saturday afternoon duties...
Ferocious-looking--but oh so gentle--Handsome Dan IV was a champion presented by a Yale football player. He was introduced at the Dartmouth game in 1938. The next year he had a tragic run-in with a car on Chapel Street, and died of "a serious paralysis of posterior extremities" while surrounded by fawning attendants in a local veterinary hospital...
...Dan V was the pet of a New Haven high school student, Robert Day, who offered the dog's services as a mascot. When this Dan died of old age in 1946, Day's parents bought Handsome Dan VI. He was introduced to the idolizing Yalies at the Uconn contest the next September. But the fast, blue-blood existence of an Eli, man or dog, was too much for him. He died of a heart attack last February while wintering in Florida...