Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imperious Etiquette. One would suppose that General Baron Byng of Vimy, World War hero and recent Governor General of Canada, would be welcome at any banquet. Yet he was excluded last week from the State Dinner tendered to President Doumergue by Their Majesties...
...will be placed in the corner of High and Wall Streets. The Wall and York Street elevations will be devoted to student rooms. The first floor of the Grove Street side of the buildings will be given over to a large common room, which can be used as a banquet hall and to which will be connected a small dining room, as well as a kitchen. On the floors will be additional dormitory rooms...
...their annual dinner in the University dining hall, Princeton seniors passed judgement upon themselves and contemporary, civilization in general recently. Startling disclosures were revealed in the seniors' voting statistics announced at the banquet. Having voted girls as their favorite study, the 1927 Princetonians selected Harvard after Smith and Vassar as the most popular women's college. Harvard again came in for its share of good natured sarcasm when many seniors answered the question: "What has 1927 done for Princeton?" by saying, "dropped Harvard...
...banquet which was the first time since their sophomore year that the entire class has gathered together at a meal in the same room, the one in which they are during their first two years at college, the results of the senior voting on, their fellows were read by Joseph Bryan, who was himself voted the most entertaining and the wittiest by large majorities...
...governments, including three nonLeague member states,* sent a total of slightly over 1,000 delegates, last week, to the International Economic Conference, sponsored at Geneva by the League of Nations. Scarcely a politician was present. Big businessmen headed the various delegations of practicing economic experts. To provide a banquet of facts for digestion by the 1,000 economists, staff officials of the League had ready 500.000 words of special reports...