Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Because the "times seem inappropriate for the usual festivities," the New York Harvard Club has indefinitely postponed its annual dinner. In place of this usual reunion and in order that those members of the club who are not absent from the city on war service may learn of the progress of affairs at the university, and particularly that they may hear of the important part which the members of the University are having in the war, a meeting of the club will be held next Saturday evening at 9 o'clock. President Lowell has promised to be present. Colonel Paul...
...scheduled to arrive at Cambridge at 2.30 o'clock and to leave in time to attend a reception given by Mayor Curley at 4 o'clock. Following the reception the visiting delegates will hold a conference with the committee in supervision of the Boston Serbian relief fund A dinner at the Hotel Somerset precedes their departure...
President Maclaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a speech given at the annual dinner of the Institute Alumni Association Saturday night, warned Boston and New England against losing supremacy in education as they had lost it in commerce, and touched upon the relations of the Institute with the University. His speech sounded the keynote of the addresses at the dedication of Walker Memorial, attended by more than 600 former students and guests, and urged adequate support of this section as an educational centre...
After January 12, Saturday is to be a porkless day throughout the Bay State, so says the Massachusets Committee of Safety. This law has, however, a loophole, for the Committee has decided to exempt from this ruling the minute bit of pork which accompanies the Boston bean to the dinner table of every true Bostonian. It was, indeed, a good thing that this rider was attached, for the bean is sacred in our midst, and what the salt is to the egg or the yeast to the bread, the pork is to the bean. Whether the tinge of pork...
...conditions arising from the war have affected the class treasury in numerous ways, and have cut down the expenditures under every head, while barely reducing the credits. No class dinner was held last year, and as a result no expense was incurred from this source. A thousand dollars was spent, however, in the purchase of ten $100 Liberty Bonds of the first issue. Seven hundred dollars were also loaned from the class fund to the 1920 Red Book because of the unfavorable conditions for issuing a Freshman Year Book. A large part of this money, however, will be repaid...