Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...magazine is intended to promote literary talent among college men, and will contain nothing except the productions of undergraduates. The "Collegian" will resemble "Lippincott's" in size and make-up, and each number will contain a special paper, two prize stories, two prize essays, two prize poems, editorial columns, rostrum, preparatory school department, foreign correspondence, eclectic and chronological departments, athletic department, and book review...
...rostrum" is to consist of a compilation of the best articles upon a given topic, which appears during the month in the pages of the college press. The first subject is, "Will the Collegian' interfere with the individual work of the College Press?" The eclectic and chronological pages keep space for all truly meritorious productions published in college periodicals, besides a record of current events...
Prizes are offered as follows: For the best essay, $50; best story, $50; best poem, $15; second best essay, $50; second best essay, $50; second best poem, $10; best editorial in rostrum, $25. The essays and stories are limited to 6,000 words, and the poems to 40 lines...
...which many speeches are delivered. Likewise, the substance of many speeches is either totally irrelevant to the subject, or else the old attempts at witticisms which were considered hackneyed in the college days of our grandfathers are resuscitated, and in their grave clothes are trotted out to the rostrum in Sever 11. If, however, we are wrong in our conception of the situation, we would like to ask the management of the Union why it is that Law School men and many members of the upper classes who once were prominent in the Union, have ceased to take part...
...subject of Modern Socialism. The college may certainly congratulate itself on this opportunity of hearing an able lecturer discourse on one of the most urgent subjects of the day. Sever 11 seems to have been especially fortunate this year in the men that have spoken from its rostrum...