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The Harvard club of New York held its 27th annual dinner at Delmonico's on Tuesday night, at which over four hundred graduates were present. After the dinner Mr. King, chairman of the club, announced that a sufficient sum had been subscribed for the purchase of a lot on West Forty-fourth street, where a building will soon be erected to be called the Harvard House. Mr. King finished by reading an ode written by Oliver Wendell Holmes on the occasion of the first dinner of the New York Harvard Club.
President Eliot spoke of the growth of the university and talked favorably of athletics. He gave a brief eulogy of the late Bishop Brook. Other speakers were Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John T. Wheelwright, W. B. Hornblower, Rev. Theodore C. Williams, James C. Carter and J. H. Van Amringe.
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