Word: pig
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Record Book" has also been prepared. It is bound in pig skin and has on the cover "The University Track Athletic Cup." On the first page is the title and the inscription: "For the encouragement of track athletics and to foster a friendly rivalry between the students of the two universities in track and field athletics." The pages which follow contain the "deed of gift," the names of the donors, etc., and blank spaces for keeping the records of the contests...
...mascot at the class game yesterday afternoon the freshmen had a diminutive pig, decked with the class colors...
...Glee Club and their soloist, Mr. Wendell 91 sang between the speeches and were uprobriously cheered. The dinner could not have been a greater success. From the moment the three hundred men who were present entered the great dining room, saw the pig skin hanging from the chandelier inscribed with the legend Harvard 12. Yale 6, gave cheer after cheer for the men who have at last brought victory to the crimson till Fair Harvard was sung and the dinner was over, the spirti of Harvard enthusiasm seemed only to grow till by its presence it made last night...