Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Poem, by Mr. W. L. Chase, which followed the singing, possessed those two best qualities of post-prandial verses, - brevity and wit. It contained several good hits, and was, in many respects, the best thing of the evening. The President then introduced the Toast-Master, Mr. W. S. Andrews, who proposed as the first toast, "Our Alma Mater," and called on Mr. Samuel Sherwood to respond. Mr. Sherwood said that he hoped this would not be the only supper of which the class, as a whole, would have the pleasure of partaking, but that the custom would be kept...
...Editors, which took place at the Parker House, on Friday evening, the 6th of February. It was a most agreeable entertainment. Full justice having been done to the dinner, the first speech of the evening was given by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, who responded to the toast of our Alma Mater. He referred with much feeling to his college days, and advocated the keeping up of college feeling, and a community of interests among the students as sons of a common Alma Mater. He advised young journalists to regard matter more than form, and maintained that any one with...
...other hand, would it preclude ale, and perhaps claret, from men of moderate means. Dinner could be served in Memorial Hall for the whole College, and supper either furnished in the same manner as breakfast, or, if preferred, a man could prepare his own tea, toast...
...Matthew Arnold. The after-dinner speeches were many in number, and one distinguished gentleman after another acknowledged how much good he had derived from the Union in his younger days. We quote from the speech of the Lord Chancellor in proposing the "prosperity of the Society" as a toast: "He did not propose to enter now into the question which had divided the minds of the venerable founders of that Society, whether eloquence had been productive of more good or of more evil; but, at all events, in all nations that breathed the atmosphere of freedom eloquence had been...
...Gaff then took the floor in response to the toast of '76, and with some prompting did the proper thing...