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...Permanent Class Committee yesterday extended from yesterday to next Monday the deadline for applications for posts of Class Day Orator, Ivy Orator, Odist, Chorister, and Poet...
...judges who will select the odist and the poet are John A. Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Theodore Morrison '23, Director of English A, Edward F. Burke '50, and Robert Claflin...
These participants are: the orator, who delivers a 10-to-15-minute address on a serious topic concerning the class; the Ivy orator, who delivers a humorous address of similar length; the odist, who writes two stanzas to the melody of "Fair Harvard"; the chorister, who sings the first verse of this song and leads the Class in the second verse, and the poet, who writes a short poem on any subject and who reads it during the exercises...
...Permanent Class Committee's plan calls for selection of the orator and Ivy orator by one joint board, selection of the odist and poet by a second, and selection of the chorister by a third...
...Council last night also decided that the Senior Class Poet, Ivy Orator, Class Orator, Odist, and Chorister will be picked by the graduating permanent class committee, not elected by the entire class as was previously done...