Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This evening the annual Phi Beta Kappa banquet will be held at the Lombardy Inn, and will be followed by a theatre party. Speeches will be made by R. E. Eckstein '20, orator; G. W. Allport '19, poet; and F. M. Carey '20, Latin odist; and the election of the secretary for next year will be announced. It is customary for the members of the Yale and Princeton chapters to be present at this banquet but this year the high-stand men have been unable to make the trip to Cambridge from New Haven or Princeton...
...meeting of the undergraduate members of Phi Beta Kappa held in the Trophy Room of the Union Monday night, it was decided to revive the prewar practice of holding dinners at regular intervals. For the annual banquet which is to be held in May, the following officers were elected:--R. E. Eckstein '20, creator; G. W. Allport '19, poet; and F. M. Carey '20, Latin Odist...
...most interesting events concerned with the lighter side of trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery...
...seemed fitting at this place that we have an old-fashioned class banquet This was arranged in an artillery dog out in the front lines. While the Colonel was making his after dinner speech, such a terrific bombardment arose that he could not continue. At the same time he was obliged to give orders to his battery to send a round of shells into the hostile lines. After the deafening noise had ceased and the Colonel had resumed his place, the celebration continued and was finished without interruption. We believe that the class of 1901 holds the honor of being...
Thirty colleges and universities have already pledged their support to the movement and new institutions are daily being added to the list. Alumni associations of New England have been quick to endorse the plan as a patriotic substitute for the usual mid-winter banquet...