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Before entering politics via the soapbox, this bombastic orator was a teamster, storekeeper, baker, and truck-owner, shuttling between Boston and Cambridge for a living. Today he still has his small trucking business, but it isn't this that keeps him on the go. "It's the politics," as Mike...
Members of the Class of 1943 will go to the polls today and tomorrow to elect eight men from a field of 32 for the class offices. Positions to be filled are first, second, and third Marshals, Treasurer, Chorister, Orator, Odist, and Poet.
The Chorister leads the Class in singing Fair Harvard and the Orator and Poet deliver serious speeches. Probably the best known man to have held the Orator's post was Oliver Wendell Holmes '61.
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Coles H. Phinizy '42, of Kirkland House and Ventnor, N. J., has been chosen for the position of Ivy Orator, Vern Miller '42, of the Class Day Committee, announced yesterday. Three men were engaged in the stiff competition for the traditional position.