Word: spoons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduating class took breakfast with the President, and in the afternoon came the memorable dance upon the green. At Yale usages have been abandoned even more than at Cambridge. One of the best known ceremonies that no longer occupies a part of the presentation week is the Wooden Spoon Ceremony. This custom had its origin at one of the colleges at Cambridge University, England. Before 1865, it was usual to give a jackknife to the homeliest man in the class, a cane to the handsomest, and a wooden spoon to the man who ate the most. Shortly before this year...
...library was established by the society. The medal of the club was of silver, octagonal in shape, on one side of which there is very appropriately engraved a kettle of steaming hasty pudding, surmounted by a hand on each side, one holding a dish, the other a spoon...
...Harvard" was shortly after superseded by a six oared shell, the first of its kind in America. She had all the latest improvements, including spoon oars, and was in a number of races, in most of which she took first prizes...
...defaulter, was the wooden spoon man of Yale...
Vassar girls have a little custom which pleases the youths who are allowed to drop in at occasional receptions, but which is rather hard on the pantry stock of the institution. The spoons. I noticed. when I took lunch at the college yesterday afternoon, were stamped deeply "Vassar Female College." I saw several youths take two or three spoons; and one Princeton man, under the encouraging smile of his "cow," slipped spoon after spoon to the inside pocket of his coat. Quite an extensive barter trade is carried on between West Point and Poughkeepsie-spoons for bell buttons. I could...