Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Club is to be the scene for the annual banquet of the New England Association of Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni this evening at 6.30 o'clock. Movies of the Harvard-Yale game of this year are to be shown; E. L. Casey '17, Harvard backfield coach, will be on hand to explain the Crimson plays, and Charles Comer-ford, who coached the Yale ends this year, is to speak about the Eli plays...
...lived a dissolute nobleman named Don Juan Tenorio who, a trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the marble effigy of an elderly commandant he had killed. Eerily enough the effigy accepted, appeared stark white at the riotous banquet hall. Awfully he warned his murderer to repent. When the swaggering Juan refused he was lapped accordingly into undying flames...
...banquet planned in honor of the University football team by members of the Harvard Club of Boston will be held on December 19, according to members of the committee organizing the festivity. E. W. Soucy '16 will be in general charge of the dinner and will be assisted by a committee of 14 members, among whom are many prominent in the football history of the University...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the day George V fell ill, the Royal Society of Medicine celebrated with a banquet. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was there to tell a little story in his warm Scotch way. Baron Dawson proposed His Majesty's health, adding in impeccable bedside tones: "Tonight is a suitable moment to state that the King in his recovery goes on from strength to strength...
...more than a score of years coaches of certain midwestern universities have rotated the position of captain throughout the squad in the course of a season, picking a different leader before each game. Others, notably St. Louis University, have done away with the captain altogether until the banquet which climaxed the fall campaign, then honoring that man as captain whose services during the season had been deemed the greatest...