PHILOLEXIAN THE Philolexian Society has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Geoffrey Parsons, '99; Vice President, Melville J. France, 1900; Secretary, Otto Hinck, '99; Treasurer, Ernest Cardozo, '99. The committee on membership, and the committee on programme are to be elected at the first meeting next year.

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1898-05-18 →

PHILOLEXIAN SOCIETY. "pHE Philolexian Society held its first meeting of the year on Friday night, October 7th. The men who were chosen to represent the Society in the Debating Union, was Messrs. Baker, '99, Geoffrey Parsons, '99, and France, 1900. A Program Committee, consisting of B. M. L. Ernst, '99, and Ernest Cardozo, '99, was also elected. After the regular business meeting was adjourned, an impromptu debate was held, in which nearly all of the members took part. The Philolexian officers for 1898-1899, are, as was stated last Spring, as follows: Geoffrey Parsons, President; M. J. France, Vice-presi-dent; Otto Hinck, Secretary; Theophilus Parsons, Treasurer.

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1898-10-12 →

PENN DEBATE TONIGHT Second Annual Debate with the University of Pennsylvania to be Held at Lenox Lyceum—Records of the Speakers. Columbia and Pennsylvania will hold their second debate at Lenox Lyceum at 8.15 this evening. The subject, which was selected by Columbia, will be "Resolved, That an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Providing for a Change in the Present Method of Treaty-making is Undesirable/'' Pennsylvania chose the negative side and Columbia will take the affirmative. The teams will be composed of three speakers. Each man will speak twice and will have twelve minutes for his direct speech and six minutes for rebutttal. The first debate with Pennsylvania was held last year in Philadelphia, on the subject of ship subsidies and resulted in a victory for Pennsylvania. The agreement between the universities only provides for these two debates but it is…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1901-12-13 →

Philo Centennial. A meeting of the Philolexian Centennial Celebration Committee was held Tuesday evening in the Library. Notes were read from the members of the Advisory Committee, and the date for holding the meeting was decided ;>n. Following the custom sanctioned by the constitution of the society adopted in 1820, the 17th of May was chosen. The celebration will consist of a reunion meeting and a dinner. The committee followed the advice of Mr. John B. Pine and President Butler in selecting Mr. William Dudley Foulke, Civil Service Commissioner at Washington, is the orator at the meeting. Mr. Pine will be asked to preside at this meeting, while Dean Van Amringe will be urged to act as toastmaster it the dinner. A history of the society is being written by E. A. Cardozo, Jr., and will be ready by the time of the celebration. To secure facts about the history of the society the…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1902-02-07 →

Dixon Ryan Fox Recalls the Glamour Of Philolexian's 130-year-old Tradition By DIXON RYAN FOX [Editor's Note: The following article by Professor Dixon Ryan' Fox is especially interesting, in view of the present Philo dispute, in giving a picture of the past glories of that organization. Professor Fox wrote the article before the present controversy developed. He proves that which cannot be denied: Philo's past history has been distinguished. Today, however, there is doubt in many minds—and possibly in Professor Fox's, too —that the current spectacle is adding anything to Philo's glorious tradition.] X By DIXON RYAN FOX Professor of History Among the oldest academic organizations in America is the Philolexian Society, familiarly known as "Philo" by Columbia College men for 128 years. In the weekly meetings of this group, Columbia today is nearer the Columbia of 1802 than…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1932-01-15 →

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

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

Named in Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902) 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.

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) 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.

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