Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred and twenty-five members of the H. S. U. last night heard Howard Munford Jones, Professor of English, and Robert H. Lane '39 speak at a banquet in Leverett House in honor of Lane's recent election to the national chairmanship of the American Student Union...
...honor of the election of Robert Lane '38 as National Chairman of the American Student Union, the Harvard chapter will hold a banquet tonight at 7:15 o'clock in Leverett House...
...Wilson soon rocketed to fame by attacking "the utility-banking-political combine." In 1935 he was elected mayor on a platform whose three major planks were 5? carfare, tax reduction and 50? gas, Philadelphia carfare is still 7?, but Mayor Wilson did cut taxes and last year, at a banquet celebrating the gasworks centennial, he fired the opening gun of a drive...
Bennington College's beret-wearing President Robert Devore Leigh, a quiet but prolific speechmaker, entered a banquet hall in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel by way of an anteroom full of books, charts, photographs, machines-all concerned with the improvement of voice technique; sat down to eat with 500 members of the earnestly convening National Association of Speech Teachers; then said to them: "I doubt whether more than ten persons can get together and do much in advancing ideas or thought. ... I wonder if the teachers of speech might not be more helpful to humanity if they taught silence...
Three hundred maintenance employees last night stood and cheered Aldrich Durant '02, University Business Manager, at the annual banquet and installation of officers of the Harvard Employees Mutual Benefit Association at the Union...