Philolexian Elects Lawrence, LaTouche 1934 -35 Officers Schuyler Lawrence '35 and J. Trevilie LaTouche '37 were elected president and vice-president, respectively, of Philolexian Society for 1934-35 at the last meeting of the academic year. Other officers follow: Milton Crane '37, secretary, Robert E. Gibney, '37, treasurer, and Kimball Plochmann '36, librarian. Singer and Giroux Elected In the presidential election, Lawrence gained the victory over LaTouche by a narrow margin. The Society then chose LaTouche vice-president. The only other business of the evening was the election of Graham P. Singer '35 and Robert F. Giroux '36 to the Society. Philolexian Society was recently the subject of a heated Campus argument when it conducted a poetry reading in a darkened room to the accompaniment of piano music. The group was accused of "escaping to an ivory tower" during a time of urging…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1934-05-16 →

GIROUX AND SMITH WILL EDIT REVIEW Co-editors Will Take Office For Year's Final Issue 9 FROSH APPOINTED Gibney, Latouche, Todrin New Associate Editors Robert Giroux '36 and Robert P. Smith '36, will edit The Columbia Review jointly during the coming academic year. The selections were made by the Managing Board for 1934-1935, composed of Leonard W. Robinson '35, retiring editor-in-chief, and Smith and Giroux, associate editors. Giroux is from Jersey City, and is a member of the Contributing Board of The Spectator. He was the winner of the short story contest held jointly by the Review and Philolexian Society last year, and contributed several articles on films to The Review this year. He is also a member of Philolexian. Smith A New Yorker Smith resides in New York City. He has had several short stories published in the Review this year and is in charge of The Spectator's dramatic…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1935-04-15 →

Giroux Elected Head Of Philolexian Society Robert Giroux '36 was elected president of the Philolexian Society for 1935-3 6 at the organization's meeting last evening. John Berryman '3 6 was chosen vicepresident and Milton Crane '3 7, secretary-treasurer. Ber ryman was also named chairman of the Boar's Head poetry society for next year. A new office, permanent president, was incorporated in Philolexian, and Graham P. Singer '35 elected to fill the position as a member of the present graduating class. Giroux. upon taking office, said that "if, by next year, I shall have succeeded in removing the stereotype which I believe to exist about Philolexian. I shall consider myself a good president."

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1935-05-10 →

Fadiman to Talk To Philo Tonight Barnard Literary Society Expected to Attend Hartley Meeting Clifton Fadiman, Columbia '25, boolc editor of The New Yorker, will be the guest speaker at the regular meeting of Philolexian Society tonight at 8 o'clock in the Hartley Hall Club Room. Fadiman, who was prominent in Campus literary affairs while at Columbia, will discuss some of the principles of literary criticism and reviewing. The Barnard Literary Society has been invited to attend the meeting. At last Thursday's meeting of Philolexian, a program of "swing" music was presented by Barry Ulanov '39. Included were records by Louis Armstrong, Don Redman and Benny Goodman. Oflicers for the Spring semester were also elected at the meeting. John McAlpin Berryman '36 was elected president of the society to succeed Robert Giroux '36. Paul v.K. Thomson was chosen vice-president and Mil ton Crane…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1936-02-13 →

Review Appears - Minus Critical Articles; Christmas Issue Features Stories, Poetry The Columbia Review, Campus literary publication, completes its swing away from the critical attitude which dominated last year's issues, in the Christmas edition of the publication appearing on S. A. F. at noon today. This issue, the second of the year, is devoted exclusively to poetry, short stories, editorials and reviews. There are no critical articles. The inside of the front cover carries an announcement of the $5O prize contest sponsored by the Review in collaboration with Philolexian Society for undergraduate compositions in verse or short story form. Contributions by three Sophomores, one Freshman and the editor-in-chief, Harold H. Friedman '34, comprise the fiction list in the issue. "Prelude" by Robert Giroux '36, "Involution" by Robert P. Smith '36, "Panegyric" by Allen B. Ericson '37, "Man…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1933-12-18 →

THE STROLLER HEALTHY OR NOT? WRITING at Columbia," writes Prof. Mark Van Doren in the current issue of The Columbia Review as one of the judges of the short story and poetry contest recently held by the magazine and Philolexian, "writing at Columbia is for the moment in a healthy state." The moment, according to The Spectator, ended last Tuesday night. That is to say it ended if The Spectator concedes that it ever existed at all, since the two persons most responsible for the events of that evening shared first place in the poetry division of the contest and their prize poems were among the main features that night. On the evening in question, 75* or 107** people sat in the dark in the John Jay meeting room, gazing at the flickering flames of two red candles and listening to Philolexian members reciting from behind a screen the poetry of William Shakespeare, John Donne, Edna Millay,…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1934-05-01 →

Poetry Society Sets Final Date In Competition Deadline April 1; Van Doren Among Judges; To Award 3 Prizes The deadline for entries intlie annual poetry contest sponsored by the Boar's Head Poetry Society is April 1, it was announced by John McAlpin Berryman '36, chairman of the Boar's Head Committee. The first, prize will be $25, the second prize $l5, and the third prize .$lO. In addition, all poems accepted by the Committee will appear in a special issue of The Columbia Review to be published on or about April 30. Poems must be submitted to the Columbia Review Office at Room 415, John Jay Hall. They must be typed, and although no length is specified, no contestant may enter more than five poems. The committee announced that an innovation has been instituted in this year's competition. The poems selected by the committee will be submitted anonymously to the judges to insure greater…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1936-03-23 →

With Berryman's assistance, Mr. Giroux revived the Boar's Head poetry society, which sponsored readings, lectures, and a faculty-judged prize contest for the best stories and poems written by an undergraduate. They did the same with Philolexian, the ancient literary society, which goes back to Alexander Hamilton and King's College. In Columbia Review, which Mr. Giroux edited, Berryman's reviews and poems began to appear — among such other editorial coups as a review by the philosopher John Dewey of George Santayana's novel The Last Puritan. Mr. Giroux himself won the Boar's Head fiction prize one year. But when he became editor of Columbia Review he realized his true vocation: what he really wanted to do was to edit other people's books.

Co-revivalist of the Philolexian Society and the Boar's Head Poetry Society (mid-1930s, with John Berryman); editor of Columbia Review; winner of the Boar's Head fiction prize.

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