Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class dinner was held last evening at the Quincy House in Boston, there being about eighty members of the class present. Mr. J. Codman, president of the class, presided, and R. L. McCook acted as toastmaster, W. H. Baldwin as chorister, and G. R. Nutter as poet. The first toast was that of the class of '85, which was responded to by M. C. Hobbs, the orator of the occasion...
...Representatives were also present from the University of California, Asbury University of Indiana, Johns Hopkins University of Maryland and Denniston University of Ohio. The enjoyment of the evening was still further hightened by the presence of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, an enthusiastic member of the fraternity, who replied to a toast in a manner appropriate to the occasion. Other replies were made by representative...
...respondent to the toast "The Boston Alumni," at the Yale dinner said: "Some of the worthy women of Boston have high esteem of Harvard, and if one chances to have married a Yale man, after he has been to one of these dinners, he quietly airs his clothes, says little about it, and passes it over as smoothly as possible. They think Yale is a little rough and the only perfect man is a Harvard graduate...
...meeting of the Alpha Delta Phi Prof. James B. Thayer of the Harvard Law School responded to the toast, "The public service, - a trust and not a perquisite." His was a brief speech, alluding with facetiousness to his proposed trip to Greece and his mission to plant colonies of Alpha Delta Phi along the coasts of the Mediterranean. The Rev. Edward G. Porter of Lexington was introduced as a representative of the Harvard Chapter. He told of the perennial power of the fraternity, and of the life-long allegiance which the members owe to it. Men of all the educated...
...George B. Loring responded to the toast of "Harvard College" at the banquet to the President Thursday evening...