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...priori grounds, at least, it is safe to say that seldom during the year has Harvard been represented by such an elegant assemblage of wit, or, at any rate, of wisdom, as, meeting round the festive board at Parker's on Friday evening, April 16, prolonged its feast of reason, without artificial aid from the flowing bowl, almost into Saturday morning. There were present about thirty of the more prominent scholars of the upper classes, who had there met together for mutual amusement. The injunctions of the menu had been carefully and fully observed by half past nine, and then...
...bare imagination of a feast...
...feast never ends in thy plenteous hall...
...successful huntsman only the tail is given to him, while the feet and head are the booty of those coming up afterwards. The hunt was completed by a dinner on the return to the house, but the lack of time forced us to leave a merry feast. Not only at the hunt, but during the entire visit of the Eleven at Montreal, the McGill Club were most courteous and hospitable, and it is to be hoped that they may be as cordially received next spring as the Harvard Eleven were this fall...
After he left the rapturous feast...