Word: salutatorians
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Professor Taft received his A. B. from Yale in 1878, ranking second in a class of 121; he was salutatorian and class orator. He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and from 1892 to 1900 was United States circuit judge of the sixth Judicial Circuit. He was honored with the degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1893, from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins in 1902, and from Harvard in 1905. From 1904 to 1908 he was Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Roosevelt, and in 1909 was elected the twenty-seventh president of the United...
when at Harvard, Greene was Latin salutatorian and odist of his class. A year ago, he won the Newdigate Prize at Oxford with a poem, "Richard I before Jerusalem...