CORT ELECTED HEAD OF LITERARY SOCIETY Jester Editor is Chosen President of Philolexian for Coming Semester. David Cort '24, editor-in-chief of Jester, was elected president of the Philolexian Society at the regular weekly meeting of the literary organization last evening. Cort has been a prominent member of Philo for the past three years and has taken an active part in the annual Shakesperian productions. Other officers elected for the present semester are: Elliot Bell '24, re-elected to the vice-presidency, Charles W. Eliason '25, secretary, Charles McMorris Purdy '24, treasurer, and Lyle Winter '24, show production manager. Membership Listed Elections for membership in the society were held at the same business session and four men were admitted. This makes a total of fourteen undergraduates who have been added to the roster of the organization this year. The new members are…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1924-02-29 →

The Off-Hour SONNET. Truly you're delectable certainly respectable, Owner fair of hazel eyes and a mind that's very wise, Lithe of form and slender quite, in things mundane a neophyte. In need of naught that maidens prize, everything that money buys. Locks of hair of ebon shade, soft alluringly arrayed,' Lovely face with lips of red, like blood upon a cold snow-bed. Idolized but quite unspoiled, empiricist as yet unsoiled, Amorous but not misled, contriving e'er to keep your head; Neatly clothed and very chic, saucy rather more than meek, Girlish with your naive air, Minerva's daughter 'neath your hair, Rarely giving forth to pique, mouth that's meant to more than speak. Ever charming, blessed maid, may your beauties never fade, Effulgent shall you ever be a beacon to posterity, Now that I have reached this far, I'm wondering, maid, just WHO you are? JONEY BONEY. Of Interest.…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1925-04-14 →

PLAYERS PICK BARZUN AS 1928 SHOW AUTHOR MUSIC WRITTEN BY PHILLIPS Former Instrumental Club Leader Has Composed Some of Incidental Music. 'ZULEIKA' SELECTED FROM MANY SCRIPTS Unusually Large Number of Play's Submitted This Year —Competition Keen. The operetta submitted by Jacques Martin Barzun '27, with incidental music by Donald K. Phillips '27, was selected by the play committee of the Columbia University Players for production as the 1928 Varsity Show. The decision was made public at noon yesterday in a letter, sent bjl Walter E. Kelley, Clarence J. Penny and Thomas Wenning to Benjamin A. Hubbard, Graduate Treasurer of King's Crown. The decision came yesterday after the closest Varsity Show contest in recent years. Five complete librettos, most of them with incidental music, had been submitted to the play committee by many of the wittiest writers on the Campus, whose…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1927-12-07 →

Thomas H. Wenning · Confidence: CERTAIN