Word: snake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...design submitted by George H. Ford for the trophies for the '88 Yale crew consists of a ring in the form of an oar, shaped like a snake ring, with the blade resting on the outside of the finger and bearing in blue enamel Yale vs. Harvard. The owner's name and date will be cut on the inside of the ring...
...Columbiad has a cut of Laocoon and the snake. Laocoon is Columbia, the two sons are Harvard and Princeton, and the snake is Yale. This is an unusual display of wit for the Columbia...
...Fewkes then mentioned the different varieties to be found on our shore, illustrating his remarks by specimens and drawings, and dwelling at some length on snake star-fish and basket-fish...
Last, year the "T Company" erected a rather odd but very pretty little hall on the corner of College and Wall streets, opposite the "Scroll and Key," and now the "Stone Trust Company, " or "Sigma Delta Chi," better known as the "Book and Snake," a sister society of the "T Company," in the Sheffield scientific school, is about to erect a cloister, which, in all respects, will fill the modern idea of a club house...
Professor Garman has a small Green snake - a southern variety - which he kept in a jar, and which is singularly unlike these others in character. It is a pretty creature and such as society belles wear as ornaments in parts of Brazil - and is very tame and affectionate. Its bed is a small ball of cotton into which it curls itself, and its chief and favorite diet is the common house-fly. Professor Garman also has some salamanders and lizards in captivity which betray some intelligence, though the former is very muscular and a trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously...