Word: poets
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Gladly to the poet given...
...have, in a given year, the office of Poet to be filled by the Pudding, and that of Orator to be filled by the Pi Eta. In each society there is an insignificant minority advancing a second candidate, but these minorities work for their candidates, and in the general election both minority nominees are elected by the votes of the rival society and non-society men. Such a case is not only possible but probable; mutual disappointment to the societies must result often from its use, and the election of men whom their own fellow-members in society consider inferior...
...present Senior Class has been so generally united throughout the three years past, that it starts at once towards open elections with a great advantage in its favor. And further, no society has men so pre-eminently qualified to fill such leading offices as those of Orator and Poet, that they might not go about as well to either society or to the non-society element. In every way the Class of '76 is eminently fitted to inaugurate the system of open elections, and so to throw off that partiality of choice that hitherto has, in some measure, detracted from...
...Poet...
...election of officers and the transaction of other business will be held in the West Lecture-Room of Boylston Hall on Thursday, July 1, at 10 A. M. The Orator of the Day will be Rev. DR. T. D. WOOLSEY, Ex-President of Yale University, and the Poet, Rev. WALTER MITCHELL, Hv. '46, of Middletown, Conn. The public are cordially invited to the exercises in Appleton Chapel. Doors open at 12 M. Tickets for the dinner will be ready at the University Book Store on Class-Day morning...