Word: salad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part by Charles R. Joy '08, is particularly interesting in view of the considerable changes planned for the Commencement calendar. The intimate anecdotal tale of Harvard's past is perennially attractive; but the devotees of Class Day spreads wonders if the Corporation could have imagined the horrors of lobster salad a la Beck when in 1693 they passed the following vote: "Having been informed that the custom taken up in the College, not used in any other universities (!) for the commencers to have plum-cake, is dishonorable to the College, not grateful to wise men, and chargeable to the parents...