Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with them; and if any of the Scholars choose to have their Milk boiled, or thickened with Flour if it may be had, or with meal, the Steward, having seasonable notice, shall provide it accordingly. And farther, as Salt-Fish alone is, by the afores Law, appointed for the Dinner on Saturdays, and this Article is now risen to a very high Price, and through the great scarcity of Salt will probably be still higher, the Steward shall not be obliged to provide Salt-Fish, but shall procure Fresh-fish as often as he can. The above Regulations...
...Annual Dinner of the Editors of the Magenta took place at Ober's, on Friday evening, April 30. The dinner itself was excellently served, and the speeches which followed were something more than is usually expected of after-dinner orators...
...Sherwood next did justice for "Our Contributors." In answering the toast to "The Fathers of the Magenta," Mr. Merwin, '74, mentioned some of the causes which led to the founding of the paper. He referred to the excellent opportunity which the annual dinner gave for old editors to hand down to new ones the principles of the paper, and urged the present Board to stand by the principles of their predecessors...
...friend, however, suddenly caught sight of me, and came over to where I sat. Dinner had by this time reached the dessert stage...
...cannot be out of place to give expression in this public manner to the general opinion that the annual supper would be far pleasanter, if two hours and a half were not spent in listening to so many weak and silly attempts at wit. Just as this year's dinner was more entertaining than the last, let us hope that next year some more amusing or at any rate shorter programme will be devised...