Word: detur
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pastour, Medal in the final debate of the class series with 1904. This year he was a member of the winning Junior team in the debate between 1906 and 1905 for the class championship. He has held Harvard College, Wendell Phillips, and Bowditch scholarships, and last year won a Detur. He is now vice-president of the University Debating Club and a member of the University Debating Council...
Seats on the platform will be reserved for members of the Faculty, and those on the floor for scholarship, prize and detur winners, and for former winners of Bowdoin prizes. Seats in the first balcony will be reserved for invited guests and members of the University, until 7.55 o'clock, when the public will be admitted. The second balcony will be open to the public throughout...
...Deturs will be awarded to men who win positions in the first group and who have never before received a detur. They are books purchased with the income of a fund established by Edward Hopkins, who was born in 1600, and are bound in red leather with the seal of the University stamped in gold on the cover...
Francis Howard Fobes, Latin Salutatorian, lives in, Lexington, Mass., and prepared for college at Phillips Andover. In his Junior year he tied with two others for second place in the Phi Beta Kappa elections, and he has received John Harvard scholarships and a Detur. The subject of his address is "De omnium studiorum utilitate...
...please myself when I take my detur in hand for the ten-thousandth time, with representing to myself a dinner party, where, after his return from America. Hopkins sits with Milton at his right and Cromwell at his left, where Andrew Marvell and Waller and Cowley and Dryden sit with the other guests. Did they make Milton, perhaps, recite some verses which describe the successes of an angelic host; did the poets, perhaps, press their host to compare for them the Connecticut against the Thames, or the Pequods against the wild Irish of their...