While the sun set, wait-staff circulated amongst the crowd with platters of hors d'oevres. Heaps of strawberries and cheese blintzes were the featured fare.
"We bought tons of strawberries this year--equivalent to the weight of a half-dozen undergraduates," Dunn joked.
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Many of the men in attendance said they were pleased to be invited, one said he felt "privileged."
"I'm honored that I was invited, but it is sad too, because I can see that this was an opportunity for the women of the class to bond and see each other off," Byron J. McLain '00 said.
"I think that we should eat like this every day," said Roanak V. Desai '00. "They're not feeding us dinner any more. That's why I came."