80th Anniversary of the Philolexian Society. A PLEASANT change in the usual form of the meetings of Philolex. was made on Thursday evening, May nth. Instead of the customary literary exercises held at the hall of the Society, a dinner at Martinelli's was substituted in order to celebrate the " Eightieth Anniversary " of the Society's foundation. The " Committee of Arrangements," Messrs. William S. Sloan, 'B2, Chairman , Girard F. Thomson, 'B3, and Herbert L. Satterlee, 'B3, labored to make the evening successful under a series of misfortunes. The date chosen, the only available night before examinations, happened to coincide with the date set for the New York Bar Association's reception, tendered to Judge Samuel A. Blatchford, one of the Society's graduate members, and many of the Alumni who are in the legal profession were thus unable to be present at the dinner. Congressional…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1882-05-19 →

Class - Day Appointinents HE Senior Class of the School of Arts, at a meeting last Thursday, elected the following class-day officers : Historian —A 1 b e r t Capron Phillips. Poet Eugene Howell Daly. Prophet—Campbell Erie Eocke. Pre sen ta tion Orator —James Fuller Berry. Odist —George Stanislaus Connell. Valedictorian —Shepherd Knapp, Jr. Committee Chairman, Henry Merwin Shrady; Paul Armitage, Joseph Peter Grace, Philip Benkard, William Walter Cook, and Harold Sharpe Emerson. The Historian, A. C. Phillips, Jr., is President of the revived Philolexian Eiterary Society. He has taken honors in Greek, Rhetoric and Eatin, and was elected in his Junior year to the Columbian Board. The Poet, E- H. Daly, has held few offices of importance in his class. He is one of the kind that backs his class and college in every movement undertaken. He has written…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1894-02-23 →

Named in The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) at the referenced leaf.

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

William Edmond Armitage · Confidence: CERTAIN