Word: woodford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Woodford oratorial prize at Cornell was awarded to H. Horace White, of Syracuse...
...line of march was down Fifth avenue to Thirty-fourth street, thence to Broadway and up to the Metropolitan Opera House. There was little decoration along the line of march. The procession was five blocks long and was formed in ranks of ten front. Stewart L. Woodford, '54, was grand marshal. The graduates were the next in line. There were about two hundred and fifty of them. One hundred and twenty members of the professional schools followed; then came the college by classes, and lastly the School of Mines. As the hour was early, Fifth avenue was empty...
...entrance of President Barnard and the other dignitaries was announced by the Lohegrin processional music, performed by the Symphonic Orchestra, under Damrosch. The president and Professors Dwight and Chandler were loudly cheered. After prayer by the chaplain of the college, Marshal Woodford opened the proceedings with an address, sketching the history of the college, and dwelling upon the glory of the future. Chorale, "Awake My Soul." Wagner, by the Oratorio and Symphonic societies followed...
...Adolph Werner, G. B. Frothingham, Geo, Wm. Curtis, Justin Winsor, Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., President Eliot, Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Walbridge H. Field, Rev, Dr. Richard S. Storrs, President Angell of Michigan University, President Francis A. Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stewart L. Woodford...
...January number of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly, to be published to-day at No.52 William-street, Gen. Woodford discusses the "Revival of Phi Beta Kappa," and remarks that the influence of Greek letter fraternities on college life has been "curiously great." To them has been largely due, he says. the altered condition of college culture, by which he means the transformation of the odl college into an aggregate of student republics which constitute the university. For a frontispiece, the Quarterly has an engraved view of "the pioneer Greek homestead," being a log cabin amid the hills of Central Ohio...