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EDWIN F. GAY CHOSEN TO DELIVER ORATION AT P. B. K. EXERCISES

Famous Essayist Is Honored--Bishop Slattery Will Be Chaplain--Public to Be Admitted to Sanders Theatre

Mr. Edwin Francis Gay LL.D. '18 has accepted the invitation of the officers of the Graduate Committee of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to deliver the oration at the P. B. K. Day exercises to be held in Sanders Theatre at 11.30 on Friday, June 22. Mr. Christopher Morley has been chosen poet and Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery '91 chaplain for the ceremony. Judge Robert Grant '73, president of the Harvard Chapter, will preside.

Gay Founder of Business School

Mr. Gay is now president of the New York Evening Post. He was the founder of the Graduate School of Business Administration and from 1908 to 1919 was dean of the school. From February 1918, to March, 1919, he served on the United States Shipping Board and during the war was on the Council of National Defense and several other war committees. In 1920 Mr. Gay was appointed to his present position as president of the New York Evening Post.

Morley Well Known Poet

Mr. Christopher Morley is a well known poet and essayist and is famous for his colyum, "The Bowling Green", on the editorial page of "The New York Evening Post". Among the most famous of his books of poems is "Songs of Little Houses". "Parnassus on Wheels" and "Shandygaff" are his best known collections of essays.

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Before the exercises the undergraduate members of the University chapter will march to Sanders Theatre and will be seated on the stage. The public will be admitted.

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