Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Council last night also decided that the Senior Class Poet, Ivy Orator, Class Orator, Odist, and Chorister will be picked by the graduating permanent class committee, not elected by the entire class as was previously done.
Under the heading of the word color comes Curley's gift for public speaking. Originally, he was only a commonplace orator but he sensed the need for inspiring speech-making even before he was mayor. He studied nights under a Professor Staley at a public speaking school in Boston. Staley...
Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, potent Roman Catholic orator who has struck many a telling blow in the spiritual battle of East & West, showed little respect for his chief ideological foe. "Stalin," said Sheen, "is possibly the most stupid politician in the history of the world."
An audience of 1000 fanned themselves in 95.3 degree heat, the highest in history for June 21, and heard Class Orator J. Philip Bahn ask for more scholarships to insure the future of "expanded opportunity" in education.
The seniors, also heard Antonio G. Haos, Ivy Orator, read a playlet "showing what life at Harvard must be like in the composite American imagination."