Word: reunioner
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...militant clergyman. He asked State authorities to prevent his Yale classmates from serving drinks at reunion. He defied his bishop and when he was tried by an ecclesiastical court on 127 different charges pleaded his own case and was found guilty on three counts. Last week he was asked not to preach to a congregation in Hull, England, because he was "not in a fit state...
...Beaver Dam, Wis., a family of 40 had a reunion, celebrated by nibbling a 100-year-old egg brought from China which had mystic hieroglyphs on its shell...
...patriotic-imperialistic demonstrations switched to gay reunion of fellow officers as the wines ran rich and red and military bands started to play the half barbaric, half mystic Prussian Army marches. The crowds in the streets outside the hall waited up late to watch their old-time heroes depart. Among those not present, because of his present status as chief officer of the German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg...
...Wilson's death. Wilson's fellow Whig and classmate in Princeton's most famed class of 1879, Editor Robert Bridges of Scribner's† talked about his friend "Tommy" Wilson, brilliant conversationalist, Whig Speaker, undergraduate leader, "warm, human." Editor Bridges remembered the '79 reunion in the White House (1919), spoke feelingly of his classmate. Said he: "Wilson was not an austere bundle of principles. . . . He was always companionable, and there was no pose...
...high tower at the Northeast corner of the West Court, there will be a "meeting room". This is intended for the use of small student organizations, primarily members of the House, who wish to have a place of reunion at stated times...