Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their meeting of Monday last, the class of '82 voted to have a supper Wednesday, March 10. Messrs. F. M. Stone, Waring, and Storer were appointed an executive committee; Mr. Pendleton, chorister; Mr. Foster, poet; Mr. Panin, orator; Mr. Edgerly, toast-master; and Messrs. Pendleton, Wister, and Burton, a committee to prepare the class songs...
...close of the sumptuous repast the presiding officer rose with the assistance of his neighbors, and said, "Gentlemen, I give you as our first toast this evening, The Crimson. Long may she blush...
...never done anything to blush for; accordingly a new presiding officer was elected, and he who was deposed retired under the table in chagrin. The new President proposed the health of the newly elected Sophomore Board, and as none of them were considered able to reply to this toast, Mr. John G. Wh-tt-r was called upon, and read the following...
...three consecutive months (Sundays excepted, - for though of a Sportive Habit she did not go fast on Sundays, which Every one knows is a Feast-Day) - She would lay a successive and successful Egg, making eggsactly ninety-one in All. A critical Weasel, who liked Dropped Eggs on Toast, determined to investeggate the Performance. Now he was a Pareggrapher on a Boston evening Paper; so deserting his Post he paid a Visit to the Hendignant Chicken...