Word: banqueters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About 170 members of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, representing each of the nineteen chapters, attended the annual banquet at Delmonico's, New York. The fraternity since 1833 has established chapters at Union, Amherst, Hamilton, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Columbia, Trinity, Harvard, Yale and Kenyon colleges, also Lehigh, Syracuse. Rochester, Chicago, Wesleyan, Michigan, Brown, Cornell and New York universities, and in New York city and vacinity has about 1200 members. The circular recently issued stated that "the purpose of this banquet is to assemble the members and organize a New York Psi Upsilon Alumni Association." In accordance with this circular such a society...
...Warner will lay the cornerstone of the new hall of Chi chapter. Professor W. W. Goodwin, orator; Professor Goodwin Smith, essayist; Professor Alpheus S. Hardy, poet; and the Hon. Francis M. Finch, author of "The Blue and the Gray," ode-writer. Judge Albion W. Tourgee will preside at the banquet...
Among the gentlemen on whom the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred, were James Russell Lowell, Dr. J. S. Billings, Assistant Surgeon General U. S. A., Professor W. H. Green of Princeton, Dr. Fordyce Barker of New York, and Principal Dawson of Montreal. At the banquet Prof. Lowell responded for literature. "There is no country in the world that owes so much to literature as Scotland. I bring with me the felicitations of three American universities, and their Godspeed to the older university here. We feel as strong as ever that blood is thicker than water. I warmly reciprocate...
...Paris, Lund and Louvain. Medals to celebrate this great event in the history of the Scottish university will be struck from gold and silver. Among the contemplated ceremonies will be the conferring of the degrees of D. D. and L. L. D. upon distinguished men. In addition, a grand banquet will be given in honor of the delegates from the other universities...
...wicked reporter of a New York daily says of the singing of the college glee club at the recent Princeton banquet in New York: "The latter organization rendered a number of college songs with great spirit, and was applauded and cheered to the echo by the happy alumni, who drank wine under the eyes of their former president with much enthusiasm...