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 →

Crane Is Elected President of Philo Milton Crane '37 was elected president of the Philolexian Society at a meeting held last night in Student Board Room, 418 John Jay. Other officers of the organization, elected previously, are Ralph de Toledano '37, vice-president, Milton L. Gendel '3B, secretary, and Phillip Lehn '3B, treasurer. Following the business meeting, Professor John H. H. Lyon of the English Department discussed the background of modern poetry, touching on the Victorian poets, Walt Whitman, the poets of the Irish Renaissance, Kipling, Masefield, and Sandburg. He emphasized that modern poetry is unafraid, rebelling against the "stuffy" and ornamented work of the Victorians.

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1937-02-12 →

Spring Voting For Officers Starts Today Balloting to Open in John Jay Lobby and Hamilton Hall By CLIFFORD H. RAMSDELL Voting begins this morning at 11:30 o'clock in Hamilton and John Jay Halls in what promises to be one of the most closely contested elections of recent years. Sixteen men have been nominated to fill five Student Board posts. Six candidates for two posts on the King's Crown Advisory Board have been chosen. Five elective prizes are to be awarded, and all classes will elect full slates of officers. The Senior Class will elect six Marshals to serve at the commencement exercises in June. The twelve candidates for the positions are: Benjamin H. Brown, James J. Casey, James M. Dunaway, William C. Fels, Richard J. Foster, George F. Furey and Paul V.K. Thomson, all members of Student Board; Thomas M. Jones, former editor of Spectator, Robert D. McMillen, former business…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1937-04-21 →

Columbian And Review Pick Staffs Bondy Chosen Editor Of 1938 Yearbook; Lax Is Elected Wolfson Protests Ulanov and Zampella Named Associates Philip K. Bondy '3B, of New Rochelle, N. Y., has been elected editor-in-chief of the Columbian yearbook for 1938, and Robert Lax '3B, of Olean, N. Y., will be editor-in-chief of the Columbia Review. Lax will be assisted by two associates, Arthur Zampella '3B of Jersey City, N. J., and Barry Ulanov '39 of Brooklyn, N. Y. Ralph de Toledano '3B of New York City has been chosen Senior assistant editor. Robert S. Gerdy '39 and Milton L. Gendel '3B, both of New York City, have also been elected assistant editors. Gerard J. Albert '3B of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the new managing editor of the yearbook and Frederic H. Meisel '3B, of Great Neck, L. 1., is associate editor. Victor Futter '39, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been elected business manager. Futter's…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1937-05-12 →

Spectator, A.S.U. Finish Calm Semester; Debaters, Philo, Jester Improved Activity Columbia extra-curricular activities had a quiet year in 1936-37 with few flurries of excitement or outstanding achievements to show for their endeavors. JESTER Robert Lax and Ralph- Toledano weathered a storm of abusive Business Board criticism all year, finally to come into their own when the 1936-1937 Jester was acclaimed by Judge as the best College humor magazine in the country. The managing board survived election protests, Off-Hopr parodies, and a special Business Board issue and turned out the usual number of issues with the usual punctuality. AMERICAN STUDENT UNION After a determined and energetic response to Bob Burke's dismissal in October and November, the American Student Union glided into a rather quiet and inactive academic year. The Union's membership has been ranging around one hundred…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1937-05-12 →

Philo Elects Officers Ralph de Toledano '3B was elected president of Philolexian, the Campus literary society, at a meeting held last night. Newly elected vice-president of the organization is Eugene Williams '3B. Barry Ulanov '39 was chosen secre-tary-treasurer. A subsidiary group of the society was formed under the name of the Swing Club, now open to general membership. All students interested in joining the new organization should get in touch with any of the new officers.

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1938-02-16 →

Student Forum To the Editor of The Spectator: O Thomson! Thou art mighty yet 1 Thy spirit walks abroad .... In a recent article in Jester, Mr. Eugene Williams '3B, analyzed the present state of intellectual stagnation on the Campus. In part, he said of the Philolexian Society that it ". . . formerly an index of Columbia intelligentsia, is near extinction at the end of a three-year fall, and nothing—not even a Left Wing Poetry Group—comes to replace it." We have been privileged to witness the replacement of this do-nothing regime. This morning's Spectator indicates that Mr. Williams' baggy young eyes have at last divined a solution for this deplorable state of affairs. A group of persons under the grave misapprehension that they constituted the Philolexian Society of Columbia College, at a meeting in the Jester office on the evening of February 15, elected Mr. Ralph de…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1938-02-17 →

Two Seniors Win Philolexian Prize Toledano Awarded Honors for Poetry; Williams, Prose The 1938 Philolexian Prizes for excellence in prose and poetry have been awarded by the Philolexian Society, one of the three oldest college literary organizations in America, to Eugene Williams '3B of New York City and Ralph Toledano '3B of New York City. Williams, who is former managing editor of Jester, Campus humor magazine, received the prose prize for an essay on "The Elements of Jazz." Toledano, former president of the Philolexian Society and editor of Jester, won the poetry prize for a twenty-eight line poem entitled "Primavera." A graduate of Fieldston School, he has been active in the Columbia College Dramatic Group and is a member of the Boar's Head Poetry Society. Judges for the prize competition were Dr. Jacques Barzun, instructor in history, and Theodric Westbrook. instructor in Greek…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1938-06-01 →

Columbia College Students Win Twenty-seven Academic Honors Twenty-seven prizes, consisting of medals, cash awards, and scholarship rooms, have been won by Columbia College students for the academic year of 1937-1938. David Schwartz, Valedictorian of the Senior Class, won the Albert Asher Green prize of $5O be- < stowed annually upon the Senior with the highest scholastic record. The Richard H. Fox Memorial Prize goes to Joseph W. Roberts '3B; the Charles H. Bjorkwall Memorial Prize to Lawrence A. Brewer '3B; the Edward Sutliff Brainard Memorial Prize of $5O to Philip K. Bondy '3B, and the Charles M. Rolker Prize of $4O to Howard W. Westphal '3B. Alumni Prizes have been won by John F. Bateman '3B and Stanton F. Leggett '3B, while Vincent A. Grasso '3B, has been awarded the "Columbia Lion for Leadership." Approximately $2OO will go to Richard M. Cohn '39 and Paul M. Marcus '4O, who…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1938-06-01 →

Philo Awards Honor Three Prizes totaling $7O have been awarded to three Columbia students, Harry Rosenstein, Jr. '4l, James Knight '4O, and Rudolph R. von Abele '43, for their winning contributions in the recent contest sponsored by Philolexian Society, one of the oldest collegiate literary groups in the country. Rosenstein, editor of The Columbia Review and a Co-Editor of next year's Jester, received $25 for his short story "A Man and Miss Florabelle", which has been published in the Spring issue of Review. Finding that none of the essays submitted were worthy of an award, the judges recommended that the $25 originally set aside for the essay winner be given instead for the second-best short story. The outstanding contribution of •a. freshman to any field of literary endeavor was made by von Abele, who was the recipient of $2O for his work in poetry. The judges in the essay and short…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1940-05-15 →

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 →

Berryman Wins Poetry Award, Deutsch Second Marie Olsen of Barnard Third in Boar's Head Competition Reading Tomorrow R. Blackmur to Be Guest Of Honor at Meeting John McAlpin Berryman '36, lias been awarded first prize of $25 in the Boar's Head poetry contest for his poem "Trophy," it was announced yesterday. The'competition was judged by Ben Belitt, editorial assistant of The Nation, Mark Van Doren, associate professor of English, and Professor Eda Lou Walton of New York University. Second prize of $l5 was given to Robert H. Deutscli '37, for "Lost Mr. O'Tacey," and third award of $lO to Marie Olsen '36, Barnard, Tor "Insight." Honorable mention was given "From the Five Days," by Boris Todriri '37. The Boar's Head issue of the Columbia Review, on S.A. distribution at the Book Store, Friday, will contain the winning poems and other poetry entered in the contest written by Jean…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1936-04-29 →

CCT profile by Thomas Vinciguerra '85 explicitly identifies de Toledano's College Philolexian membership among his four literary/journalistic activities (Spectator, Jester, Review, Philolexian). Also documents: born in the International Zone of Tangier; father was a foreign correspondent; anti-YCL activism at the College; interviewed at his Foggy Bottom apartment 50 years to the day after the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact; 19 books including biographies of Nixon, Goldwater, J. Edgar Hoover, and vitriolic studies of Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and Ralph Nader; co-authored Seeds of Treason (1950) with Victor Lasky, the first book on the Alger Hiss case; friendship with Whittaker Chambers ('the most significant friendship I ever had in my whole life'); Heritage Foundation fellowship (updating his 1960 autobiography Lament For A Generation).

Columbia College Today — vol. 32 (~1990), profile by Thomas Vinciguerra '85 →

Ralph de Toledano, America, I Love You (National Press, 1968) →

Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers-Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960 (Regnery Publishing, 1997), p. 11 →

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