The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Bernard Wishy
Vital
- Full name
- Bernard Wishy
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1948 (Columbia College)
- Society role
- candidate for Permanent Senior Class 1st Vice-President [Spec, 1948-04-27]
Works (10)
- 1959 “Prefaces to Liberty” (ed.): Selected Writings of John Stuart Mill · Editor (Beacon Press)
- 1960 A History of the American People, Vol. I · With Harry J. Carman & Harold C. Syrett
- 1961 The Western World in the Twentieth Century (Source Book) · Editor
- 1968 The Child and the Republic: The Dawn of Modern American Child Nurture · University of Pennsylvania Press
- 1980 Jefferson and the American Revolutionary Ideal · By Otto Vossler
- 1982 America's Families: A Documentary History · With Donald M. Scott
- 1995 Good-Bye, Machiavelli: Government and American Life · Louisiana State University Press
- 1995 Goodbye, Machiavelli · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995
- 2002 Despotism and Democracy: The Great Modern Contest · Franklin Street Books, Portland OR
- 1948 It's Democracy, Stupid · Forthcoming
Primary sources
The Columbia Daily Spectator
1948-04-27 Contenders List Qualifications, Aims [ARTICLE] candidate for Permanent Senior Class 1st Vice-President
Contenders List Qualifications, Aims in the following columns, Spectator adheres to its traditional election policy of publishing brief statements made by the candidates themselves in which they set forth their attainments and platforms. PERMANENT SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President ED PAUL —Student Board (had best attendance of any member); King's Crown advisory Committee; Dormitory Council; Senior Class President. JACK BUXTON— I intend to make the Class of '4B the best alumni group ever and since getting out of the Army my record of working with my classmates speaks for itself: Student Boai'd, Vice-President Newman Club; Sec-Treas. —Junior Class; Debate Council; Earl Hall Society; Ex Officio Academic Affairs Commission; Pre-Law Club; Junior Prom Committee. Ist Vice-President BERNARD W. WISHY—I do not believe in undertaking a job unless one can accept the full…
Columbia College Today & other articles
Columbia College Today — vol. 44 (Nov 2002 / Jan 2003), Class of 1948 alumni class notes by Ted Melnechuk
Thomas Vinceguerra '85, former managing editor of CCT and now deputy editor of The Week, helped to revive the Philolexian Society in October 1985 and still helps to maintain and lead it... In the Columbia archives, Tom discovered the Philolexian Society's original membership scroll. From it, he could tell that, between Philos' original founding in 1802 and its 1985 revival, it was revived twice. The first revival was in 1944 and involved Walter Wager '44, who nowadays is that year's class correspondent. The second was in October 1947, and among the signatures from that time were those of Vincent Carrozza '49, Jason Epstein '49, and Theodor [sic] Melnechuk... Tom sent me a list of members of our class who were members of the Philolexian Society when it was revived in 1947. They included Sylvain Bromberger, the late Barry Decker, Herbert C. V. Feinstein, the late Allen Ginsberg, Donald…
Melnechuk's class-notes column names Bernard W. Wishy as a 1947 revival signatory — cross-checked against Thomas Vinciguerra's 1980s discovery of the original Philolexian membership scroll in the Columbia archives, which lists the members who signed at the October 1947 revival. Two-source confirmation of Society membership: (a) the physical scroll signature, and (b) Vinciguerra + Melnechuk's transcription.
The Foundation's research archive
Philolexian Foundation research file: handwritten list of Philos by class year
listed under the year heading 1948 · Confidence: CERTAIN
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