Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class dinner. The sentiment of the meeting was in favor of giving a dinner, and the following were appointed a committee by the chair: Messrs. Gardiner, Delano, and W. W. Smith. The meeting then proceeded to elect officers of the dinner, and the following were chosen: President, Codman; toast master, McCook; orator, E. L. Thayer; poet, Nutter; chorister, Baldwin. It was moved that the dinner be held before the April vacation, and that the crew be invited to attend. A book for the names of those desiring to attend will be placed immediately, at Bartlett...
...toast. "Yale and Harvard: Always rivals, ever friends," the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew was called upon as the representative of Yale present, to respond. Humorously analyzing the difference between the two universities, he said that Yale does not yet pursue the elective system with the confidence in the ability of the undergraduate to discriminate and with the enthusiasm that Harvard does, but when charles Francis Adams, at a Harvard commencement, declared there was nothing within the bounds of ambition he might not have attained had be not been weighted down by the classics, it was enough to cause Yale...
...following arrangements have been made for the Bicycle Club dinner: The dinner will take place at Young's Hotel, Monday, February 25, at 6.30 P. M. Mr. T. C. Coolidge, '84, will act as toast master; Mr. R. F. Hour, '84, as chorister. All who intend going are requested to sign at Bartlett's as soon as possible. Price $2.50 a plate...
...voted that the committee should obtain the most reasonable terms possible, and then place a book for subscriptions at Bartlett's. The election of other officers was then held, resulting as follows: C. C. Whitman, chorister; R. D. Smith, orator; A. B. Houghton, poet; G. R. Parsons, toast-maker...
...celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the Emperor of Japan, at the Parker House Saturday night, Professor Putnam replied to the toast to Harvard University and Dr. Holmes to the toast to American literature...