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 →

Philo Debaters Active The Philolexian Debating Society will hold next Tuesday evening its annual Freshman trials for admission to the Society. Ten minutes will be allowed each speaker. The subjects may be chosen by the candidate and no special knowledge of the subject will be necessary. The last few meetings of the Philolexian Society have been devoted to trials for the prize essays jand debates. Fifty years ago at the j Semi-centennial of the Society, a [certain sum was left, the interest | from which has each year since been offered in prizes for the two best essays, the two best debates, and the three best orations. This year the increase has amounted to about -100 which sum will be divided among the winners of these contests. The announcement is made that A. L. Strasser, 1903, has won the first and B. H. Ridder, 1903, the second prize debate. M. C. Ansorge, T 9°3) th e first, and…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1902-04-25 →

PHILO. CENTENNIAL To Be Held To-morrow Afternoon on the Campus—Program of Exercises. Tormorrow the Philolexian Society will hold its Centennial. A large number of the Alumni has signified there intention and the affair will mark an era in the life of the society. The program is as follows: At 3.30, exercises will be held at which George L. Rives, the Corporation Counsel will preside. Mr. Rives will be introduced by G. H. Butler, 1903, President-elect of the Society. The orator of the occasion, William D. Foulk, Civil Service Commissioner at Washington, will also be introduced by the Presi-dent-elect. The oration will be followed by a short address by President Nicholas Murray Butler, who will hand over the package which has been in the custody of the University since it was left fifty years ago. P. Dudley, 1903, President of the Society, will receive the package and open it in…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1902-05-16 →

The Meeting of the Trustees. A MEETING of the Trustees was held on Monday, the 6th inst., for the purpose of filling the chair of English Literature, and the trusteeship, rendered vacant by the death of the late Samuel B. Ruggles. The election of a Professor of Literatuie was again postponed, but George Lock hart Rives, of the Class of Sixty-eight, was chosen to fill the vacant seat in the Board of Trustees. Mr. Rives was a prominent man throughout his college course. He is a member of the Delta Psi Fraternity, and while an undergraduate was a member of the Philolexian Literary Society, chairman of the '6B Burial Committee, and member of the Columbiad Board. He graduated second in his class, and was its Valedictorian. After graduation he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and graduated Fifth Wrangler, in 1872. He afterwards studied law at the Columbia Law School, from…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1882-02-15 →

About College SPECTATOR was very much amused to see the following clipping in the Evenitig Post of March 7 th: — THE ASTONISHED BUTLER. A titled Englishman was a guest at a Washington house, and a dinner party was given in his honor. The host cautioned the colored butler to address the Englishman always as "My Lord." This he remembered to do until he passed the special dish of the occasion, stewed terrapin. The appearance of this dish is not specially inviting, so, when the butler handed it to him, the Englishman declined it, saying sot to voce, " It looks uncommonly nawsty." The butler was so taken aback at the idea of anyone refusing such a delicacy that he forgot himself and said: "But it's terrapin, my God." —[Argonaut]. For the instruction of our own readers, as well as those of the Evening Post, we should like to state that the above appeared in the Christmas number…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1896-03-18 →

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.

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