Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then, too, there are other memories that will always cling about the hall. What graduate will forget the commencement and class day exercises held in Sander's theatre, the concerts, and lectures, the prize speaking, or the dancing and gaiety, and beauty often enjoyed and seen in the dining hall...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -The Shakespeare Society cannot take the place of an inter-collegiate oratorical association, any more than class races and games between elevens of the same college, can take the place of inter-collegiate races and games. To be considered the best orator in Harvard would be a great honor, but to be ranked the first orator in all of our colleges would be a greater. The greater the honor the greater the effort to secure, hence the advantage of an intercollegiate association over the Shakespeare Society...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-Permit me to propose through your columns the organization of an intercollegiate oratorical association. The field of sports and general athletics seems to be the only place where our colleges meet on friendly rivalry. If a contest of representative orators from the colleges were held each year, about the middle of the winter or just before spring comes, it would not interfere with athletics, while it would bring in competition the intellectual forces for our schools. Each college could have a yearly contest just before the Christmas holidays. The orator judged best at the home contest would...
7. The class officers shall be elected in the following order : Secretary, first marshal, second marshal, third marshal, orator, poet, oddest, ivy orator, chorister, class day committee.
It is rumored that the reason why John Harvard sits "gazing into the We stern sky," as the orator says, is in order to escape the odors arising in the Eastern sky from the vicinity of Memorial.