Lady's ticket for the Wooden Spoon Exhibition.
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Cochleaureati means"laurelled with the spoon." The wooden spoon was originally presented to the junior whose name appeared last on the list of appointees for the Junior Exhibition and later to the most popular member of the class. Ticket was for the Class of 1870 exhibition. (Loomis Havemeyer, Out of Yale's Past, pages 24-32.)