Philolexian. Thursday, April 7th, the annual competition for the prizes in oratory took place at the hall of the society. That portion of the interest of the Philolexian Prize Fund set apart for prizes in oratory amounts to thirty-five dollars, which is divided in the following manner : a first prize of twenty dollars, a second prize of ten dollars, and a third of five dollars. The exercises were well attended, several members of other societies being present as invited guests. Seven members entered into the competition, namely: Messrs. A. D. Henry, 'B4; H. L. Mills, '81; G. C.Whitney, 'B3; J. B. Nies, 82; H. L. Satterlee, 'B3; M. Wainwright, 'B4, and E. L. Ryder, 'B2. The judges for the occasion, the Hon. A. S. Hewitt, Messrs. W. B. Parsons, Jr., '79, and H. G. Paine, '79, awarded the first prize to Mr. Mills, the second to Mr. Nies, and the third to Mr. Ryder. Mr. Hewitt, speaking…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1881-04-22 →

Philolexian. last regular meeting of the Society was held at its rooms, 64 Madison avenue, on the evening of Thursday, the 26th inst. The President, J. Duane Livingston, 'BO, presided. The regular order of business was suspended, by vote, and the annual elections were declared in order. The balloting resulted as follows : President, H. L. Mills, 'Bl ; Vice-President, Alexander Harvey, 'B2; Secretary, A. D. Henry, 'B4; Treasurer, H. de B. Parsons, 'B2; and Librarian, H. L. Satterlee, 'B3. Mr. J. Purdon,'B3, was then initiated. Orations were then in order. Mr. Mills (positively last appearance) spoke " Spartacus," Mr. Nies volunteered "The Cat," and Mr. Henry declaimed "Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu." Mr. Messer was requested by the Society to read his Prize Essay at some early meeting, next term. A vote of thanks was then tendered to the retiring President, to which he responded, and an…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1881-06-03 →

The Philolex. Prizes. HTHE contest for the Oratorical Prize of the Philolexian Society was held at its rooms on Thursday evening, April 6th. As it was a special meeting the usual order of business was suspended, and the Society listened to the orations. The speakers were Messrs. J. B. Nies, 'B2; A. D. Henry, 'B4; W. K. Otis, 'B2; J. M. Wainwright, 'B4; and E. L. Ryder, 'B2. After the orations the judges, Messrs. W. Barclay Parsons, Jr., '79; J. Duane Livingston, '80; and Doctor John D. Quackenbos, announced that the first prize of $2O was awarded to Mr. Nies; the second, of $lO, to Mr. Ryder; and the third, of $5, to Mr. Henry. In announcing this decision Dr. Quackenbos complimented the Society on the work it is doing in promoting the practice of declamation, which is so sadly neglected at College. He also said that the debating society supplemented the collegiate curriculum, and that…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1882-04-21 →

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 →

About College HTHE Chess Club held its last meeting for the season on Wednesday evening, May ioth. THE coming freshman class promises to be very large in numbers. THE Eighty-four Columbiad board have chosen Mr. H. V. A. Anderson Chairman, and Mr. Perry Secretary and Treasurer. THE excellent portrait of Professor Nairne which we give on page 109 is taken from a photograph by Pach Bros., the college photographers. It is reproduced, by kind permission, from The Daily Graphic. THE race which our 'Varsity eight won at Newark on Decoration Day was one of the prettiest that they have ever rowed. The Metropolitans finished second, by half a length. Several of the crack Harlem and Passaic eights were in the field. THE cricket match with the University of Pennsylvania takes place at Philadelphia on Monday, June 12th, at 10:30 A. M. It would be greatly encouraging to our team if the match were…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1882-06-09 →

About College T7 IGHTY-FIVE will give the Triumph after all. A TENNIS Club has been organized in 'B5 Arts. THE Freshmen had no monthly examination in Latin for March. THE crews will surely get on the river this week —probably to-day. BUT six prize essays were handed in to the committee of Peithologia. EIGHTY-THREE shows no signs of putting a crew on the water this spring. THE date of the spring regatta is fixed for Saturday afternoon, May 12th. THE Freshmen are betting even on their crew's winning the class regatta. WE understand that 'B5, Yale, has reconsidered their intention of challenging 'Bs's crew. THE Glee Club concert for the benefit of the Boat Club will probably take place about May nth. EIGHTY-THREE'S class day exercises will be held in Library Hall. ALMOST all of the Seniors have been photographed for the class album. PACH should add a picture of Library Hall to…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1883-04-13 →

Philolex. Prize Contests. the evening of Thursday, April sth, the Prize Contest in Oratory took place in the Hall of the Philolexian Literary Society, at 64 Madison Avenue. The Judges were Messrs. Clarence R. Conger, '7l ; Sutherland Tenney, '73, and R. Maclay Bull, 'BO. The speakers of the evening were W. G. Elliot, 'B6, who delivered a clever, original address on "The True Theory of a University Education;" A. D. Henry, 'B4, whose rendering of one of Patrick Henry's famous speeches showed careful study and training ; J. V. Bouvier, Jr., 'B6, who recited an extract from Shakespeare; and H. L. Satterlee, 'B3, whose delivery of " Lord Stafford's Defence " showed an evident lack of preparation. The Judges gave the first prize of twenty dollars to Mr. Henry, the second prize of ten dollars to Mr. Satterlee, and did not award the third prize. The decision of Prof. T. R. Price, Prof. A.…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1883-04-27 →

CAST IS PRAISED BY PHILO'S COACH Manager Olney Announces That Staging of Show Will he Very Simple FACULTY MEN TO ATTEND Calvert Sets Dates for Dress Rehearsals in New Ball Room of Plaza Coach Louis Calvert of "As You Like It," to be produced by Philolexian Society and Barnard Wigs and Cues this Friday and Saturday night at the Hotel Plaza, announced Saturday that work on the play is progressing in excellent fashion and praised the cast. Manager J. Olnev '22 said further that the merit of the production is assured by the fact that it is being put on by a coach who is recognized as an authority on Shakespeare. "The college has been fortunate," he said, "in securing one of the few living competent Elizabethan coaches, a man who has acted and directed Shakespeare all his life. Indeed, Louis Calvert is probably the greatest student of Shakespeare in the country and is. giving the…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1922-01-09 →

About College. freshmen have chosen as their motto, ycyvuaxLjfted-a epyoig. A. V. W. JACKSON has been elected Historian of the freshman class. STEVEN can not be reconciled to giving up his whistle, and still blows in spite of the electric bells in Anthon. CONOVER, 'BO, and Morgan, 'BO, have been selected as delegates to the Convention of the In-ter-Collegiate Athletic Association. THE Semi-Annual will be held on February 6th, at the Academy of Music. The tax has been fixed at $5.00, and it is hoped that the various committees will get to work promptly, that the necessary amount may be raised in time. THE Bicycle Club held a meeting in Prof. Smith's room on Jan. 6th, and elected the following members : Bates, 'BO, Newbrough, 'BO, Taylor, 'Bl, Travers, 'B2, and F. White, 'B3. Messrs. B. P. Clark, 'B2, and Burrill, 'B2, were appointed guides. A MASS MEETING of the students held on…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1880-01-13 →

About College OLLOWING are the names of the editors of the SPECTATOR : J. Mayhew Wainwright, 'B4, Managing Editor; O. E. Coles, 'B4, Financial Manager; Grant Squires, 'B5, Business Manager. Editors: H. L. Satterlee, 'B3 ; T. J. Brereton, 'B3, S. of M. ; W. S. Humbert, 'B3, S. of M.; D. E. Moran, 'B4, S. of M. ; C. H. Mapes, 'B5; A. Coles, 'B5 ; H. R. Chambers 86 ; F. W. Sherman, S. of L. ALL rushing is at an end. THE semi-annuals are close at hand. 'B6 MUST decidedly brace in boating. 'B5 HAS at last paid off its class debt. THE Freshmen have at last begun training in earnest. THE annual report of the President has been published. THE University Crew will not begin training till after the holidays. THE Freshmen are at last beginning to wake up in boating matters. THE Eighty-four foot-ball team have been photographed by Pach. JUNIOR marks in English Literature for the last three months…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1883-01-26 →

IN MEMORIAM. STERLING ROSSITER. A GAIN the college has been visited by death, and, as was the case last year, the one who has been taken away was well known and widely respected one who had held various positions of honor and responsibility, and who always discharged his trusts faithfully, and proved himself a man of honor and integrity. Sterling Rossiter entered the college with the class of Eighty-three, and soon became a general favorite by reason of his manly and cheerful bearing. He organized the class crew, and was elected its captain in the fall of Freshman year, and his earnestness and perseverance were attested by the faithful manner in which he trained them at the gymnasium during the winter. In the spring he rowed stroke, and pulled that oar when they beat the Crescent Boat Club on the Schuylkill River. In the race with the Harvard Freshmen at New London he sat in No. s's…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1883-07-13 →

About College A STRONOMY is a very popular study with the Seniors this year, as usual. Almost the entire class has elected it. FOOT-BALL progresses apace. VERY few men went to see the game with Rutgers. WHAT about the reading-room we were to have ? ONLY 17 men in 'B6 have elected Analytical Geometry. THE students should brace up the Athletic Association. SLOWLY but surely foot-ball is killing off our college athletes. / THE Senior Class in Extra Latin, will read Lucan's Pharsalia. THE Philolexian Literary Society held its first meeting Thursday evening, Oct. 9th. AN editorial in the Commercial Advertiser describes the last " rush " as a brutal fight. PROF. BOYESEN is again temporarily at the head of the Modern Language Department. AN electric bell should immediately be put up in Mr. Scribner's French class-room in the South hall. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER lectures but twice a week on…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1884-10-24 →

About College ' library now numbers 65,000 volumes. SEVERAL men have been dropped from 'B7 into 'BB. THE Sophomores with Professor Price are very disorderly. IT seems impossible for some men to step lightly in the library. MANY of the students attend the clinics held at the School of Medicine. PROF. CHANDLER'S lectures to the Seniors in chemistry are very popular. THE Library is becoming very popular as a place of study in the evening. MR. Scribner is much worried at the behavior of the Freshmen in his classes. THE students do not seem at all sad at the prospect of the Christmas holidays. EIGHTY-SEVEN should do something at once about its class debt; as yet nothing has been done. W. B. PEET, stroke of last year's 'Varsity, has left college. He will probably return again next year. EIGHTY-SEVEN has taken up the question of the " Triumph " in earnest, and hopes to make a success of it. …

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1884-12-19 →

About College P IGHTY-NINE has already collected over |ioo for the crew. MR. S. W. SMITH, 'BB, has left college. EIGHTY-EIGHT has lost two men this year. THE lunch-room now sports check books. Six men have left 'B9 since the beginning of the year. THE Chess Club has been increased by the addition of four new members. A NUMBER of men have recently been expelled from the Philolexian Society. THE Senior examination in Calculus was oral, It was held on last Wednesday and Thursday. MARSHALL, 'B6, was around college again last week, and announced his intention of graduating with his class. THE examination schemes were distributed with commendable promptness. They seemed to be carefully arranged. THE Shakespeare Club of the Class of 'BB has elected C. H. Young, president ; and G. F. Putnam, secretary and treasurer. EIGHTY-EIGHT has handed in a petition that the examination in German…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1886-01-27 →

About College P* P. SMITH has been elected captain of the * '92 crew. THE blanks for the Class-Day history have already been distributed by the energetic historian. THEY do not tune pianos 011 Friday afternoons in the old building. What you hear are the illustrations of the lectures on music. STORM, the representative of '94 on the committee of track athletics has left college. A man should be appointed to fill the vacant place. ON Saturday last the university foot-ball team was photographed at Pach's. After the picture a meeting was held at which T. L. Chrystie was elected captain for next year. THE number of '92 men who have taken advantage of psychology to escape modern languages shows great unanimity of desire. Are modern languages becoming unpopular ? CONSIDERABLE sport was occasioned one day last week by the presence of a reporter for one of the daily papers. He was sent away…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1891-02-26 →

Wellington Koo '09, Once Soph Show Bellboy, Now Foreign Minister of Chinese Republic Wellington Koo 'O9 is in the limelight of international affairs again, this time as foreign minister and leader of the Republican party of China in its opposition to the new Russian government. According to the latest news dispatches, Dr. Koo desires the restoration of normal relations between the two countries, but insists that China be given reparation for certain land seizures so that future relations may be established on a sound basis. Ever since his graduation from Columbia in 1909 Wellington Koo has been a power in world affairs. At the age of thirty-four he represented his country at the Versailles Peace Conference, and there attracted international attention through his refusal to sign the final pact. His action brought the Shantung situation to a head, and that affair remained a world issue…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1924-04-16 →

Wellington Koo '09, Once "Spectator" Editor Now Foreign Minister of Chinese Republic Wellington Koo 'O9 is in the limelight of international affairs again, this time as foreign minister and leader of the Republican party of China in its opposition to the new Russian government. According to recent news dispatches, Dr. Koo desires the restoration of normal relations between the two countries, but insists that China be given reparation for certain land seizures so that future relations may be established on a sound basis. Ever since his graduation from Columbia in 1909 Wellington Koo has been a power in world affairs. At the age of thirty-four he represented his country at the Versailles Peace Conference, and there attracted international attention through his refusal to sign the final pact. His action brought the Shantung situation to a head, and that affair remained a world issue…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1924-08-06 →

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.

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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