Word: alumnie
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...annual Commencement dinner will take place on the 25th of the present month. Colonel John D. Washburn, of Worcester, has been chosen Chief Marshal for the occasion. E. Rockwood Hoar, the President of the Association of Alumni, will preside at the dinner, and Rev. Charles E. Grinnell, of Charlestown, at the Junior dinner. It is hoped that next year, instead of the present cramped space, the dining-room in Memorial Hall can be used...
...which is a beautiful and spacious hall, having beneath it the means of preparing dinner for eight hundred persons. Why should not Commons be removed thither? According to the present plan this hall is to be used on one day alone during the year, - for the dinner of the Alumni. We hope that that Association will yield one of its privileges, and confer health and comfort on hundreds who will come here when our college life is but a memory...
...Williams Vidette gives up four of its columns to a report of a recent sermon on prayer, by Dr. Hopkins, and six more are occupied by an account of a recent alumni dinner at Boston, both of which are, no doubt, interesting reading at Williams. From its locals we learn that one of the seniors chopped his thumb nearly off, and that another, while on a bobbing excursion, was thrown off and struck on his head. In general, however, this species of puerility, which so much mars the character of other more pretentious periodicals, is avoided...