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Dates of delivery are listed; the society elected orators in advance. Many titles are generated from descriptive text.
Annual
January 1, 1849: Job G. Bass, topic unstated
January 1, 1850: Enoch G. Beaird, An Energetic and Persevering Mind”
January 1, 1851: William H. Gailliard, “Knowledge”
January 1, 1852: Simeon W. Beaird, “The Influence of Principle and Action on the Future Destiny of Man”
January 10, 1853: William O. Weston, “Influence”
January 2, 1854: Henry Cardozo Jr., “Rewards and Results of a Well-Directed Ambition”
January 1, 1855: Benjamain L. Roberts, “The Phases of Education”
January 7, 1856: Richard S. Holloway, “The Advantages Accruing from a Cultivated Mind”
February 16, 1857: Robert L. Deas, “The Advantages of Intellectual and Moral Culture”
Quarterly, Regular, and Semiannual
February 16, 1848: Samuel W. Weston, topic unstated
December 26, 1848: Enoch G. Beaird, “The Advantages Derived from Good and Careful Reading”
May 30, 1849: William H. Gailliard, “Neglected Genius”
August 15, 1849: William O. Weston, “Education”
December 26, 1849: Simeon W. Beaird, “Industry, Perseverance, and Patience”
March 27, 1850: Henry Cardozo Jr., “The True Happiness of Man”
August 14, 1850: Augustus L. Horry, “Perseverance”
April 14, 1851: Stephen J. Maxwell, “Education”
October 11, 1852: Henry J. D. Cardozo, “Paramount Importance of Timely Mental Culture”
April 27, 1853: William E. Marshall, “Nature, the Fall of Man, Intemperance”
December 7, 1853: Robert L. Deas, Ambition”
July 26, 1854: Joseph Moulton Francis Dereef, “The Advantages of Reading Standard Works”