Word: tiger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale's victory over Princeton in football is commemorated in the Banner by a large cut of St. Elihu standing over a slain tiger, whose blood forms a pool at the saint's feet...
President Dwight, who was next called upon, was received with three cheers and a tiger. The speaker said he had taken some part in the changing of the name of Yale College to Yale University, but he asked all present to remember Prof. Fisher. He felt that he had reason to look back on his experience with credit, for this was the 10th alumni dinner he had attended, and he had four more to attend. The speaker said he believed we were passing into a new era at Yale, as well as at older universities, and he had felt...
...readily observed the difference between the cheers. In the Town and Gown affrays, which formerly occurred here, the rallying cry was "Yale! Yale! Yale!" and was so well understood that it almost immediately emptied the college buildings of students and assembled them in a body on the campus. A "tiger" was formerly employed after the athletic victory, but has gone into disuse of late...
...July Manhattan will have a humorous short story, "Plain Fishing," by Frank R. Stockton, the author of that amusing sketch, the "Lady of the Tiger?" A biographical and critical paper will appear on the Earl of Dufferin, written by J. L. Whittle, the earl's in intimate friend, and one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue...
...Tech, now in its third year, appeared first in a cover designed by one of its student architects. At first brown, it has now appeared in a cover of cardinal and gray, the M. I. T. colors. The Princeton Tiger, the Yale Courant, and Michigan Argonaut were not long in following suit. But it has remained for this year to see the greatest number added to the list. The Yale Record, then the Cornell Era, Michigan Chronicle and even the staid and sober Amherst Student, with a number of lesser journals, have all become giddy in their new dresses. They...