Word: beaman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the transaction of some routine business of the club, President King introduced Mr. Beaman, who, he said, had charged himself with a message to the guests they would probably be interested to hear...
...Beaman's address was jocular and entertaining though freighted with some points of serious interest. He said that at the instigation of some active spirits "some of us old fellows of New York" had been clubbing together their wealth and making a "jack pot" of it intending to add some new joy to the thirteen foot ball players already intoxicated by the ducat breath of victory. "Ube sunt, o pocula?" said he, "is a question I must ask of my friend Mr. Louis Clark, translating for his benefit, 'Where's them cups?' " He assured the guests that they had enough...
...Beaman said that as one of the overseers of the University he could offer Mr. Cumnock and his compeers most hearty thanks that they had won a game of foot ball through fair play and superior methods. He added most earnest thanks to those who had done what the frequenters of games between Yale and Princeton had never expected to see,-they had played against powerful opponents a game which was not disgraced by a single ungentlemanly act. As long as our athletics were conducted in this spirit we might be sure that our teams were backed by the best...
After Mr. Beaman's speech the evening was spent in the discussion of various athletic matters and in partaking of the liberal refreshments afforded by the Club...
...following ladies attended as patronesses: Mrs. Francis R. Appleton, Mrs. Ira Bursley, Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate. Mrs. Charles C. Beaman, Mrs. G. C. Clark, Mrs. George Blagden, Mrs. H. W. Draper, Mrs. Francis O. French, Mrs. Richard M. Hunt, Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Edward King, Mrs. Adolphe Ladenburg, Mrs. John W. Minturn, Mrs. Robert Winthrop, Mrs. Charles A. Post and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt...