Word: spoon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result of the senior elections for honor men C. L. McKeehan was chosen spoon man as the most popular man of his class, E. Essig, bowl man, as the second most popular man, J. D. Winsor, Jr., received the class cane and A. S. Brooke the spade...
...neglect to carry away some souvenir of Harvard. Be it photograph, china, spoon or a Harvard seal, you'll find it at J. F. Olsson...
TOMORROW is the last day the John Harvard Souvenir Spoon will be for sale in Cambridge. You can find them at D. H. Law's, 460 Harvard St. Also full line of popular spoons, including the Paul Revere Midnight Ride...
...numerals intertwined with the letters. The dance orders are unique. The gentlemen's programmes are of lavender leather tied with a blue cord and lined with blue silk. The front is ornamented with a bronze shield and ivy leaves. In the upper left hand corner " '92" surmounts a small spoon resting on a large "Y." The ladies' orders are of cream colored leather tied with white and lined with white silk. The front is ornamented with a dark blue shield and ivy branches. In the middle, worked in gilt, is a spoon with "Yale '92," while above and below...
...junior promenades have taken place at Yale since 1848, being at that time known as the "Wooden Spoon Entertainments." They were intended as a burlesque on the regular junior exhibition, and were in imitation of a custom in Cambridge, England, of naming the last man on the junior appointment list, the "wooden spoon." The faculty finally put a stop to the wooden spoon entertainments in 1870. The first junior promenade, however, was held under that name in 1851. It was originated to defray the expenses of the band that played at the junior exhibition and was so successful that...