Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election of John Edgar Evans '30, of Ebensburg, Penn., to the captaincy of the Freshman wrestling team by his teammates at a dinner after the Andover meet was announced last night. Evans is a star 135 pounder, capably taking his event in both of the season's meets. He prepared at Mercersburg Academy...
Holding their first meeting since the organization of the Harvard Fund Council a year ago, the Fund Class Agents assembled last night at 7 o'clock at a dinner in the Aesculapian Room of the Harvard Club of Boston...
...Hamlen '04, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Fund Council, presided, President Lowell, Eliot Wadsworth '98, a member of the Board of Overseers, and B. L. Young '07 delivered brief speeches on the work of the Fund. Following the dinner, plans for the Fund's activities during the next few months were discussed. R. N. Field '26, the Agent for the Class of 1926, and Lawrence Coolidge '27, newly appointed Agent for his class, were also present at the meeting...
George Bernard Shaw, playwright: "It was after a dinner last week at the London home of Lady Utica Beecham (who is separated from her husband, Sir Thomas, eccentric, music-loving son of the late pill magnate, Sir Joseph -TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have...
...Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry, Brown football coach, paid tribute at an alumni dinner to eleven other iron men— the Brown football team that played through the season undefeated.* He derided the idea that he fed his protégés on milk. "Music," he said, "is what makes Iron Men. The players depend on rhythm and morale, and unless you have a singer or two on the squad you have a tough time keeping up the morale. Whenever we were in the train on the way to a game I always made them start a song...