Word: convivium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...convivium recently took place at Trinity College on the Campus. It was made as nearly as possible to resemble an ancient Roman banquet. The guests were attired in flowing white togas, and speeches were made on the Latin authors...
...class of '85 at Columbia celebrated their victory over their "treacherous foe, Legendre," by a triumphal procession Monday evening and a "convivium." The procession was formed in Madison square, and was headed by a transparency by which the class expressed the undergraduate position on a much debated subject-co-education. To give an illustration of the practical working of this system, four students were clad in female attire. "One wore a fashionable poke bonnet and a scarlet dress with puffed sleeves, and smoked a very long and strong cigar; another was attired in modest white, wore a coquettish flat straw...
After this came the "convivium," which needs no description...
Eighty-four's Triumph was a grand success. The procession was weird, the talking part of the programme good, and the drinking part entirely satisfactory. The poem was delivered by Mr. J. F. Jenkins, Jr., and the oration by Mr. J. H. Ward, Jr. The convivium afterwards was held in the American Institute Fair building, where hat kicking, crack walking and busy times generally were rife until the "wee sma' hours...
...evening; a poem will be read by the haruspex, J. Foster Jenkins, Jr., and J. H. Ward, Jr., the carnifex, will deliver the oration. These exercises will be held on the college campus, after which the students and guests will march to the American Institute building and enjoy the convivium until morning...