Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuesday, the election of a member of the Corporation to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of William Howard Taft, will terminate. Already over 8000 votes have been cast. In the afternoon, the reunion classes will parade to the field for the Harvard baseball game...
...That violation of the Eighteenth Amendment during commencement this year, has been deliberately planned, was brought to my attention a few days after reading your Times letter. Seeking help to prevent such lawbreaking at his reunion, the Rev. Clement G. Clarke of Portland, Oregon, a '95 graduate, wrote that he was communicating with you and others. In writing me he quoted an excerpt from a letter written him by the Chairman of his class Reunion Committee, an ex-President of the Yale Club of New York City, as follows...
...Committee has considered the matter of liquor at our reunion this Spring at great length. We have finally decided to follow the wishes of the large, large majority of the class, and have some liquor at our class headquarters. The cost of the liquor is not paid for out of the funds subscribed to the reunion expenses, but is taken care of by two or three men entirely outside, so that they are really entertaining their friends at our reunion in New Haven. We plan to control it more than we have in the past, and I do not believe...
...apparent the writer of the quoted letter thought violating the Constitution of his country would be unobjectionable to any member of his class. This action of that class reunion committee, however, planned a deliberate conspiracy (as all familiar with the law know--and ignorance excuses nobody) to violate the fundamental law of our country by Yale graduates at a reunion of their class during a commencement held under the auspices of, and carried on by, the University authorities...
...conspiracy brought to your attention several weeks prior to your reply in The Times of May 26 to Mr. Martin. Yet by that reply all who will join in such a conspiracy are advised that the university will do nothing to stop their lawbreaking, when you say: 'The reunion classes hold their own dinners and conduct them as seems to them best.' Such deliberate lawbreakers are even welcomed back to Yale by the last paragraph of your letter, which reads: 'With this assurance that Mr. Martin will be quite able to conduct himself in any way that seems...