Word: platter
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Dates: during 1897-1897
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...these facts have been mentioned are much interested in reviving the old cup and have subscribed toward a piece of plate on which are to be engraved the names of all the winning crews (as winners of the Beacon Cup) from 1874 to 1897. The plate is an octagonal platter, large enough to hold all the names of the winning crews in the past and still leave room for the winners for twenty years to come. In the centre of the plate will be the following inscription...
...winner of the regular class race. This old silver cup bears the names of winning crews for several years preceding '75, but it has not been competed for since about that date. Mr. R. H. Appleton '75 has had the cup burnished up, and it is probable that a platter will be presented to go with it, in order to provide space for the names of the winning classes up to the present time, in a complete record...