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Elections for the 15 positions on the 1949 Class Day Committee will be held in the Houses today. Seniors will pick a poet, orator, odist, chorister, ivy orator, and ten committee members-at-large to handle Class activities during graduation week.
Ivy Orator--Antonio G. Haas of Winthrop House, and Mazatian, Mexico; Advocate President, Bowdoin Speech Prize-winner, Phi Beta Kappa, Signet Society. George K. Bouzoukle of Kirkland House and Nashua, New Hampshire; Orchestra, John Reed Society Executive.
Boy Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before...
Back to Britain, where she has become "a visitor most dear to British hearts," went Eleanor Roosevelt to receive from Oxford an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law.* Introduced by the Public Orator as "a pillar of world affairs," Mrs. Roosevelt herself made a memorable target for photographers as...
As if lashed, the dreary assemblage awoke with screams of wounded pride. Imprecations rattled about the hall like hailstones. Angry old men glared and shook their fists at Basso, who stood slender, confident and amused behind the speaker's desk. A ruddy, portly old Socialist waddled up to the...