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...Annual Dinner of the Editors of the Magenta took place at Ober's, on Friday evening, April 30. The dinner itself was excellently served, and the speeches which followed were something more than is usually expected of after-dinner orators...
...Sherwood next did justice for "Our Contributors." In answering the toast to "The Fathers of the Magenta," Mr. Merwin, '74, mentioned some of the causes which led to the founding of the paper. He referred to the excellent opportunity which the annual dinner gave for old editors to hand down to new ones the principles of the paper, and urged the present Board to stand by the principles of their predecessors...
...nurses, and they left it now with sincere regret. In replying for "The Advocate Board," Mr. Isham assured us once more of that good-will which it is the wish of both papers may exist always, as it has in the past, between the Advocate and the Magenta...
...President next called upon Mr. Parker C. Chandler of Williams, and at present of the Law School, as an ally of Harvard. Mr. Chandler spoke of his connection with college journalism; he said that although he could not claim to be either father or wet-nurse of the Magenta, he nevertheless considered that he had done something to bring it into existence by pointing out in the Williams Review the field for a new paper at Harvard. He concluded by reading a poem which appeared some time ago in the Advocate, and which described himself as the editor...
Several songs followed, and the toast, "The Magenta," was given; and replied to by Mr. Harcourt Amory. After Mr. Thayer, '78, had replied for his Class, the sentiment, "The Ladies of Cambridge," was answered by Mr. E. M. Wheelwright. His remarks were few, for he confessed his incapacity to treat the subject satisfactorily...