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...trenching on the prerogatives of the President, offer a toast myself, and ask a gentleman, one of the professors of this University, a fair illustration of the word that the office should seek the man and not the man the office, and in this case I may say, if reports speak truly, the office had to knock several times at the door before it was bidden to come in, - a gentleman whose selection for a post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor...
General Devens then called upon Senator Bayard, of Delaware, to respond to the toast proposed by Mr. Schurz, "The scholar in politics...
...that come unlooked for are twice welcome,' was never called upon suddenly to make an after-dinner speech. His steps had been bent thither by invitation of one of the societies, before whom on the morrow he might perhaps say something in response to the heavy idea of the toast. If pleasures unexpected were twice welcome, so indeed were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree of the University was to be bestowed upon so unworthy a person...
...Bowen next introduced Mr. Twombley as Toast-master. The following toasts were given during the course of the supper: The Institute of 1770, responded to by Mr. Bowen; Our Noble Selves, by Mr. Donaldson; The First Ten, by Mr. William Hooper; The Absent, by Mr. J. G. Coolidge; The Freshman Class, by Mr. Griswold; The Ladies, by Mr. F. M. Ware; The Freshman Crew, by Mr. C. Ware; The University Base Ball Nine, by Mr. J. Wright; The Committee on the Supper, by Mr. Barlow...
...Hallo, old boy! I thought you had reformed." "Troja fuit," I merely replied, feeling a little ashamed of giving up so soon; but a minute later, when Carl's flaxen-haired Ganymede brought me a schooner, all shame had left me, and alone by myself I drank down a toast which my classmate who met me at the car would probably translate in this way: "Reform to the other side of the Styx...