Word: valedictorian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chosen to speak are:- W. G. Cosad, Phelps, New York; E. S. Farrington, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Irving Fisher (valedictorian), New Haven; E. W. Harter, Albany, N. Y.; D. B. Hardenburg, Port Jervis, N. Y.; W. A. Parshall, Port Jervis, N. Y.; H. G. Platt, Milford, Conn.; B. C. Steiner (Latin oration), Baltimore; H. E. Steinervens, New York city; H. C. Tolman, Hanover, Mass., M. R. Wait, Toledo, Ohio...
...speakers for class-day and commencement exercises at Columbia have been chosen. The valedictorian, H. D. Ewing, and the salutatorian, C. H. Young, were selected by the faculty for superiority in scholarship. The others were elected by the class last Tuesday and are as follows: Latin poet, H. A. Sill; English speakers, G. T. Warren, Jr., and J. R. Fairchild; for class-day : orator, P. T. Hall; historian, J. J. Mapes; poet, L. C. Reamer; presentation orator, W. C. Humphreys; prophet, C. S. Baldwin. The committees are: for commencement, J. J. Mapes, H. S. Harper, G. Livingston, G. M. Tuttle...
...give way before the new order of college study. In a system which has abolished that course of instruction of which the valedictory is, the index and highest honor, such an honor is not only useless, but calculated to raise censure upon the system itself. The day of the valedictorian who stands up as an exponent of the system in which he has been trained, has, at least, among those colleges which pretend to a university training, passed away, and it is fitting that the institution itself should follow...
...graduating class at Yale numbers 122. The average age is 22 years, 9 months, 11 days. The oldest is 39 Wiggins, the valedictorian, is the youngest, being only 19 years, 7 months old. Twenty-one will graduate under 21. Seventy-two are church members. There are 76 republicans in the class, 18 democrats and 24 "mugwumps." Of these 58 are free-traders and 44 protectionists. Thirty-eight hope to study law, 14 theology, 12 medicine, 5 banking, 7 teaching and 16 business...
...following of the class of '83, Yale College, are to prepare commencement orations: Beede, Bosworth, Bowers, Carmalt, Cornish, Esselestyn, Grabb, Halsey, Husted, Johnson, McLaughlin, Price, Sherman, Taft, Thatcher and Vernon. This does not include the valedictorian, salutatorian and another yet to be announced...