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Menu Monday: We found this dinner menu for the Princeton Class of 1876's reunion supper in 1877 in one of the class members' scrapbooks. Would you be having the boiled mutton with caper sauce, or boned turkey in ascot jelly?
Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 27
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Menu Monday: This private dinner menu, from the University Hotel, belonged to Princeton's John Fletcher Duffield, Class of 1876. Based on the date (June 20, 1877), it may have been the Class of 1876's first reunion dinner.
Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 36
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Menu Monday: The Princeton Class of 1876′s 35th reunion dinner, June 20, 1921. “A good dinner is a very good thing.”
Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 8
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Menu Monday: The Princeton Class of 1876′s 25th reunion dinner menu, June 10, 1901.
Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 8
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Menu Monday: Princeton’s Class of 1876 10th reunion dinner, June 21, 1886.
Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 8
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Menu Monday: The Princeton Class of 1876′s 20th reunion dinner, 1896. This 1896 reunion would be the last for which the institution was still officially named the College of New Jersey; the name officially changed to Princeton University that fall.
Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 8
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Menu Monday: Some of the parties students have thrown in their dorm rooms, as the Nassau Literary Magazine noted in March 1876, are fancier than others. Some things might be simpler in this century (though of course not this year, with social distancing rules making parties of this kind too risky to host or attend). Rather than hiring a live band, as the Class of 1876 residents of Reunion Hall did, students would probably play prerecorded music, and they’re more likely to have a restaurant deliver the food than they would be to ask a local resident to cater for them. Mrs. Priest’s menu, provided here in French, was indulgent for its time but not quite as elaborate as the language used might make one assume. Here it is in English:
North Reunion Hall. Senior Reception. Menu. Oysters on the half shell.
Entrees.
Assorted Sauces. Gelatin. Salted peaches. Celery. Cold Dishes.
Chicken Salad. Salted Oysters. Cold Beef Tongue. Cigarettes.
Dessert.
Molded Ice Creams.
Neopolitan. Bisque. [A white ice cream that would have had some sort of white confections mixed in, such as marshmallows or macaroons, and would otherwise have been unflavored] Vanilla.
Lemon Ice Cream. Wine Gelatin. Assorted Cakes.
White Grapes. Almonds. Raisins. Bananas. Lemonade. Coffee.
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Menu Monday: The 40th reunion dinner of the Princeton Class of 1876, June 12, 1916. Among their repast were Saratoga Chips, which we know as potato chips, and Punch a la Lalla Rookh, which would have been a mixture of vanilla ice cream and rum.
Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 8
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