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Valedictorian   Listen
noun
Valedictorian  n.  One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.






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"Valedictorian" Quotes from Famous Books



... means uncommon among our thoughtful people—dignifies those social meetings where it is manifested, and sheds a ray of sunshine on our common nature. It is "an oasis in the desert,"—to use the striking expression of the last year's "Valedictorian" of the Apollinean Institute. In the midst of so much that is purely selfish, it is delightful to meet such disinterested care for others. When a large family of children are expecting a parent's return from an entertainment, it will often ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... mercury in New York, when the Harvard and Yale men drew out at New London for their race. Fifty years ago the crowd at Commencement filled the town green and streets, and the meeting-house in which the graduating class were the heroes of the hour. The valedictorian, the salutatorian, the philosophical orator, walked on air, and the halo of after-triumphs of many kinds was not brighter or more intoxicating than the brief glory of the moment on which they took the graduating ...
— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis



Words linked to "Valedictorian" :   scholar, valedictory speaker, bookman, scholarly person, student



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