Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Following is the list of officers of the Institute dinner: toast master, W. H. Rand; chorister, L. Honore; orator, J. H. Sedgwick; poet, L. McK. Garrison...
...Faulkner was Chorister and led the singing with his accustomed ease and grace. Mr. Snelling acted as Toast master, to the most entire satisfaction and pleasure...
...place a book at Bartlett's, and, if fifty names should be signed, to hold a class dinner. Mr. F. S. Coolidge, with two others to be appointed by the chair, were elected as a committee to make arrangements for the dinner. Mr. J. L. Snelling was elected Toast Master; Mr. F. E. E. Hamilton, Orator; Mr. W. Wetherbee, Poet; and Mr, W. E. Faulkner, Chorister...
...Beta Kappa invitation dinner occurs to-night. Mr. Huddleston will act as toast-master...
About thirty plates were set, and after the menu had been served, the toast master, Mr. J. N. Baxter, called for the speeches. Joseph A. Sewall, President of the State University, spoke eloquently of Harvard. The grand old school, he said, was never old and never would be. Its history was rapidly reviewed and the leading part its students had taken in all great National movements. At its close, Rev. Thomas Van Ness made some humorous remarks on the various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages...