Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...washstand and a few coarse chairs. Men had to rise for a 6 o'clock chapel, from which no cuts were allowed. They had to attend two recitations before they ate breakfast, consisting of folls and coffee. The mornings were spent at recitation till half-past twelve, when dinner was served, which Dr. Peabody describes as "a meal not deficient in quantity, but by no means appetizing to those who had come from neat homes and well-ordered tables." Supper came at six, quite as meagre as the breakfast. From this time, halls and dormitories resounded with singing and frolicking...
...annual dinner of the Harvard Club, of Washington, will be given at Wormley's Hotel, on Thursday evening, Feb. 16th. President Eliot will be among the guests, and a reception will be held in his honor after the dinner, at the residence of Secretary Endicott. Hon. George B. Loring is president, and Wm. Grant Webster, secretary, of the Washington Club. President and Mrs. Eliot will be the guests of ex-Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. McCulloch, during their visit to Washington...
...Harvard Association of Western New York gave their annual dinner last Saturday evening in Buffalo. President Eliot, who had been a guest of the Chicago Harvard Club on the 9th, and who was then on his way to Washington, was present and spoke. Referring to college athletics, President Eliot said he approved of intercollegiate contests within reasonable limits, but he would like to see the number of matches restricted and freshman matches done away with. Freshmen have not been long enough under college discipline, and they have not learned sufficient self-restraint to indulge in these exciting competitions with impunity...
...HOPKINSON, Secretary.ALL correspondents and former editors of the CRIMSON are requested to call at the sanctum to-day (Monday, 13th) and sign for the CRIMSON dinner, which will be held at the Parker House, Feb, 20th...
...York Alumni Association of the Phillips Exeter Academy held their sixth annual dinner at the Hoffman House, Wednesday evening. Not only was the banquet productive of important results socially, but various measures for furthering the interests of the academy were discussed at length. Steps were taken toward the building of a chemical laboratory, and resolutions were made informally to increase the number of scholarships and to improve the library. The old question of raising the instructors' salaries was broached, but it was deemed impracticable to arrive at any favorable decision until the endowment could be increased...