Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the retiring board of Directors of the Harvard Dining Association who enjoyed the banquet provided under the direction of the steward last Tuesday evening, learned, that, however renowned Boston and New York have become through the fame of Hall and Whipple and Delmonico, Cambridge may surpass both through the ability and taste of Mr. Sullivan. The table was spread in the directors room of the hall. The menu provided was as follows...
Baldwin, '85, acted as chorister, and many choruses and solos were sung. Mr. Fiske, the auditor, in his response read a poem in which he contrasted the old Thayer Club with the present Dining Association. After an evening well spent discussing the delicacies of the banquet, and listening to the many toasts and songs, the directors adjourned sine die, with twenty-seven cheers...
...said that the Directors of the Dining Association are planning to celebrate the close of their year's term of service by tendering themselves a dinner,-to be held, very fittingly, in the Directors' room at Memorial. On further inquiry it is found that the extra cost of this banquet is to be defrayed by the Directors themselves. In behalf of the great body of students who dine at Memorial, we would suggest that the coming dinner be at the expense of the Association. Great credit is due to the management of the Hall for the present condition of affairs...
...Henry Dixon Jones attended the banquet tendered Mr. Irving in New York...
...Harvard Banquet in Philadelphia on Thursday last, Wayne McVeagh, Yale, '53, said,- "My presence here reminds me of Mr. Evarts' little girl who was in the country, and who begged him to send down her donkey. When the donkey arrived, she wrote as follows: 'Dear Papa: the donkey is beautiful, but very lonely; please come and see us soon...