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...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...
...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...Harvard" was shortly after superseded by a six oared shell, the first of its kind in America.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...