Word: reunions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...look forward to the day when this war shall have been fought to a victorious end, and when you and I and my other friends can have a reunion here in France. Please give them all my kindest regards. Your sincere friend, JAMES A. SHANNON, Major...
...following classes have the announced the times and places of their reunion activities to be held today, tomorrow and Thursday...
Elaborate plans for reunion festivities have been greatly cut down because of the war. Only the simplest sort of dinners and meetings are to be held, even those classes which are celebrating their important reunions. 1892, which will be back for its 25th, has decided that "owing to the fact that the country is seriously preparing for war, it has seemed to the Class Committee inappropriate to hold an elaborate or expensive celebration." The Secretary of 1897 writes that "the conclusion reached by the Class Committee that the 20th Reunion be reduced to the minimum of expense and effort...
...Secretary of 1907 reports: "Owing to the state of war existing between this country and Germany, it has seemed best to the committee in charge of our Decennial Reunion to cancel the elaborate plans they had prepared for the affair and to confine the Class activities to the ceremonies on Commencement Day and an informal dinner to be held in Boston on the night before Commencement, which, it is hoped, all those in a position to do so will attend. The committee hope that the elaborate celebration planned for this June will simply be postponed until...
...following notice, was sent out to all members of the Class of 1912, by the Entertainment Committee: "Due to the present national crisis the Class Entertainment Committee has felt it advisable to cancel all plans for any official reunion during the present year. The Committee has felt that the Class would desire to endorse and to reflect the spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion to the nation's needs which inspires and guides the University today. What price the country must pay in the months to come for the ideals now at stake no one can foresee; but that...