Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alumni Association of St. Mark's School at Southboro was held at Young's evening before last, with Hon. Edward Burnett in the chair. Fifty alumni were present. The dinner was very informal...
...Four, Wednesday was Greek day for all classes. First-year men studied etymology and syntax in the forenoon and practiced the rules of grammar in the afternoon; the second class studied prosody and dialects from 9 to 10 a. m., and practiced in "Poesy" after dinner; third year men did likewise in the theory and practice of Greek composition, prose and verse. (5) Thursday was devoted to the "Eastern tongues," with the theory of Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac grammar in the morning, and practice in corresponding Bible texts in the afternoon. (6) Friday was given up to rhetoric. All students...
...curios coincidence there were ninety men present at the dinner given Friday night by the class of Columbia, '90, to their crew which defeated the Harvard Freshmen at New London last June...
...among the many who rejoice in the start that has been made against snobbery among us. But I hope that this question will not be confined to the comparatively limited extent of the snobbery toward good yet socially unpolished athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There...
...Inter-Collegiate Press dinner last Friday evening, a speech was made descrying the appointment of recent graduates from colleges to tutorships. The sentiment of the gathering was unanimous in favor of the opinion expressed by the speaker...