Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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The annual dinner of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held in the Committee Room of the Union on the evening of Wednesday. May 6. A. L. Richards '03 will be the orator, and C. R. Post '04, poet. The other speakers will be Alan...
Robert Hall Ewell '03, prepared at Andover, where he was actively interested in debating, taking part in the Philo-Forum debate and winning the Robinson prize. In his freshman year he was president of the Freshman Union and alternate for the Yale-Princeton debate. In sophomore year he was President...
Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, lately elected president of Clark College, Worcester, has been chosen orator for the next Phi Beta Kappa anniversary on the Thursday after Commencement Day. Le Barron Russell Briggs '75, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will be the poet...
It is probable, he said, that the revival of debating by the universities, accompanied as it is by coaching both on matter and form, may restore the vogue of the orator. The best speaking of today is that which is heard on university platforms.
The following were elected officers for the year: recording secretary, R. Ernst '03; first marshal, J. A. Field '03; second marshal, D. P. Lockwood '03; toastmaster, A. L. Richards '03; orator, A. A. Ballantine '04; poet, C. R. Post '04.