Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appeared disgruntled that they should be handled so unmercifully-but that is impossible. We can say only that the burden of the speech was, "Restore Harvard to her rightful position in athletics by destroying the present vicious law of compensation." Dinners are times for joviality, and last Friday's banquet was no exception to that rule, but still there was hardly a speech that evening which did not turn upon the evils which had beset and were besetting Harvard life, and there was a spirit of earnestness and determination shown which, if transplanted into every class in college without losing...
Beecher's words at the Delmonico banquet in regard to the Princeton team,- "We'll wallop them in the mud to-morrow," proved literally true...
...Yale alumni banquet in New York on last Friday evening, 100 members of the Association were present. Stagg, Beecher, Darm and Rogers spoke of the athletics of the college in the past and the prospects in the future...
Yale has a Criminal Club composed of men who have been arrested for petty offences. The club had a banquet recently and twenty men sat at the table...
Thursday-Final business session, morning; drive through the city, afternoon. Banquet at Grand Pacific Hotel at 8 p. m., at which George E. Plumbe will be toast-master and the speakers will include Frank H. Hurd of Ohio, George Z. Erwin, ex-speaker of New York State Legislature, Judge Julius S. Grinnell of Chicago, and Charles H. Beckett, formerly Secretary of the Council and author of the popular novel "Who is John Noman...