What is another word for "rostrum"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "rostrum": abecedary, academic, academy, advance, advanced, ahead, alma, ambo, amphitheater, and, anterior, anteriority, art, auditorium, beak, before, bend, boarding, book, bow, box, brow, cathedra, chair, class, coin, college, collegiate, come, confront, continuation, convent, countenance, creche, cyclopedia, day, denominational, desk, dictionary, disc.