Word: odes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thompson; poet, C. B. Newton; ivy orator, A. P. Andrew; historian, P. H. Davis; presentation orator, W. A. Guild; class prophet, B. B. McAlpin; censor, R. T. Sloss; Washington's Birthday Orator, N. B. Tarkington; '76 prize debate, J. B. Carter; Nassau Herald Committee, Wylie, DeWitt and Dodd; Class Ode Committee, H. Rogers, Carpenter and Dunn; Class Day Committee, S. Rogers, Lester, Shelton, Cochran, Fraser, Warren, Beveridge, Carpenter, Woodcock, Henderson, Black, Morris, Driscoll, and Ferguson...
...Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of an ode from Horace also fell to an Annex student. Of last year's graduates three are pursuing higher studies and four are teaching in important educational institutions...
...most noteworthy verse of the number is W. F. Herrick's "Translation of Horace, Ode XVI, Book III," which won the Sargent Prize...
...class reassembles in front of Holworthy Hall, preceded by the Marshals of the Day, the orators, poet, and odist, marches, about the yard to Sanders' Theatre where the literary exercises of the day take place. There the class oration, ivy oration and the poem are read, and the ode is sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard," the programme being equally divided between the serious and the humorous...
...class oration and ode are sober and more or less pretentious affairs, while the poem and ivy oration are directly the opposite. Both aim to give, in a humorous way, the history of the class, and the ivy oration, although the most recent addition to the custom of the day, is the gem of the day. This position grew out of the old custom that when a president went out of office the class of that year should plant an evergreen to his memory and sometimes an ivy was substituted. While the planting went on it was the custom...