Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apparently indifferent to the nationwide suspicion that had just attached itself to one of the guests, President Coolidge attended a dinner-last of its kind this season-given for him by Secretary of Labor James John Davis & Mrs. Davis. Among the guests were Senator Capper of Kansas, Mr. & Mrs. Haley Fiske (Metropolitan Life Insurance), Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hines (Evanston, Ill., lumber), Alexander Pollock Moore and Will H. Hays...
...pleased was President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University on being shown some broken 100-year-old dinner plates dug up in the backyard of University Hall, that he ordered the Wedgewood Potteries of Staffordshire, England, to manufacture 42,000 old-fashioned plates bearing pictures of new Harvard buildings. Many of these plates will be sold to loyal sons of John Harvard...
...dinner will be strictly formal and will be limited to 250 people, including the guests. Applications for tickets, which will be about $2, are now being received at the newsstand
...besides President Lowell, who will be honored, are: William Lawrence '71, John Farwell Moors '83, Charles Francis Adams '88, Jeremiah Smith Jr. '92, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, and Charles Pelham Curtis Jr. '13. At least two of these men will speak at the dinner. The other guests will be announced within a few days...
...done rightly to forego the selection of a single alumnus. The honor of being the most prominent Harvard graduate would be a doubtful one, even were it the intention of the Union to make choice upon that understanding. The question was sensibly beggared by the announcement that the dinner would be given merely to "a prominent Harvard graduate...