Saw this item on ebay whose auction ends 9 a.m. Monday. It's just a spoon until you know the story behind the spoon:
A record 40,000 crowded the Polo Grounds in New York to watch Princeton snap Yale’s 3-year, 37-game winning streak by a score of 6-0 and finish as 11-0-0 National Champions (according to retro-pollsters). According to the December 9, 1893 Evening Star of Washington, D.C. it was reported that two days earlier back in Princeton, “At 5 o’clock, when the final score was announced, the little knot around the office went wild, the bell in Old North began to ring and was kept ringing continuously for five hours; the local band was called out and ordered to head an impromptu parade, consisting of a handful of students, several club waiters and the small boys.” Later a championship celebration was organized with a large parade, band, fireworks, bonfire and, “The town was canvassed and the faculty solicited. No one declined. The hardware stores donated tar and kerosene, the drug stores sent in all their packing cases. Prof. Marquand gave part of the fence around Guernsey Hall, his residence, other member of the faculty gave cord-wood or supplied fireworks. All day the freshman, whose special perogative is to haul lumber on celebration days, have been bringing in load after load of material for the bonfire. Twenty-four cords of wood were stacked around the [Rutgers-Princeton] cannon in the center of the quadrangle behind Old North, and around and above the solid foundation was heaped a mass of material soaked with kerosene and daubed with tar…
...Such a celebration Princeton has not seen since the night, years and years ago, when the students in their velvet knee breeches and three-cornered hats built a bonfire and cremated the odious stamp act [of 1765]. That was Princeton’s first celebration effort, and Dr. John Witherspoon [signer of the Declaration of Independence] was living then. Princeton’s latest effort was tonight with Dr. F.L. Patton in the presidential chair of the college.” Before the bonfire took place near the Big Cannon, “A pleasant feature of the celebration was the arrival of a band of Rutgers men cheering for Princeton and New Jersey. One of their number made a speech from the steps, after the coachers had finished. Browlee,’89, from the seminary, headed a long line of excited Seminoles bearing transparencies expressive of their joy. This was a startling departure from custom, but it is alleged that only two seminary students stayed away.”
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A record 40,000 crowded the Polo Grounds in New York to watch Princeton snap Yale’s 3-year, 37-game winning streak by a score of 6-0 and finish as 11-0-0 National Champions (according to retro-pollsters). According to the December 9, 1893 Evening Star of Washington, D.C. it was reported that two days earlier back in Princeton, “At 5 o’clock, when the final score was announced, the little knot around the office went wild, the bell in Old North began to ring and was kept ringing continuously for five hours; the local band was called out and ordered to head an impromptu parade, consisting of a handful of students, several club waiters and the small boys.” Later a championship celebration was organized with a large parade, band, fireworks, bonfire and, “The town was canvassed and the faculty solicited. No one declined. The hardware stores donated tar and kerosene, the drug stores sent in all their packing cases. Prof. Marquand gave part of the fence around Guernsey Hall, his residence, other member of the faculty gave cord-wood or supplied fireworks. All day the freshman, whose special perogative is to haul lumber on celebration days, have been bringing in load after load of material for the bonfire. Twenty-four cords of wood were stacked around the [Rutgers-Princeton] cannon in the center of the quadrangle behind Old North, and around and above the solid foundation was heaped a mass of material soaked with kerosene and daubed with tar…
...Such a celebration Princeton has not seen since the night, years and years ago, when the students in their velvet knee breeches and three-cornered hats built a bonfire and cremated the odious stamp act [of 1765]. That was Princeton’s first celebration effort, and Dr. John Witherspoon [signer of the Declaration of Independence] was living then. Princeton’s latest effort was tonight with Dr. F.L. Patton in the presidential chair of the college.” Before the bonfire took place near the Big Cannon, “A pleasant feature of the celebration was the arrival of a band of Rutgers men cheering for Princeton and New Jersey. One of their number made a speech from the steps, after the coachers had finished. Browlee,’89, from the seminary, headed a long line of excited Seminoles bearing transparencies expressive of their joy. This was a startling departure from custom, but it is alleged that only two seminary students stayed away.”
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