Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...executive committee was formed of five members, chosen from Harvard, University of Chicago, Northwestern and Johns Hopkins. A general committee was appointed consisting of one delegate from each club in the league. The vice-presidents will be appointed by the president from the faculties of the colleges represented. A banquet was held in the evening...
When the decision was announced the crowd gave tripple cheers for Harvard and the students went out on the campus to sing the college glees. The more fortunate adjourned to the banquet which took place immediately after. The spacious dining rooms of the Princeton Inn were festooned with colors of the two universities and everything was arranged in a way suggestive of the generous rivalry between the crimson and the orange and black. There were 75 professors, alumni and friends of the two colleges...
...recent banquet of the Harvard Club of Chicago, Professor Royce explained the reasons for the Faculty's action in regard to intercollegiate football. He was apparently of the belief that if, in future years, plans for a satisfactory reform should be matured, the Faculty might withdraw their opposition to intercollegiate games. E. H. Warren '95 spoke on the sentiment among students in regard to this action. The sentiment of the graduates present, according to the Chicago Tribune, was rather with the students than the Faculty. The feeling seemed to be strong that, while reform was badly needed, the Faculty were...
...that every college and university of any importance in the country will be represented, Among the probable speakers are Congressman Reed, Governor McKinley, Senators Aldrich, Higgins, Wolcott and Burrows, and ex-Senator John Patton, Jr. The speeches will be made the night of April 5, after a banquet...
...eleventh annual banquet of the New England Club of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity was held at the United States Hotel in Boston, Saturday evening. At the business meeting which preceded the dinner the officers of the past year were re-elected. About one hundred members were present. President Gleason acted as toastmaster and the following men spoke: Rev. A. M. Lord, Harvard '83, on "A Practical Application of the Fraternity Spirit;" Mr. Henry A. Thomas, the Governor's private secretary, on "Our Country;" A. B. Haven, Rutgers '82, on "The Bar;" President B. L. Whitman, of Colby, spoke...