Word: rhetorician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic Senators Robinson (titular leader), Harrison (star rhetorician), Edwards (wet campaigner) judged that in a recent contest* Dr. M. D. Taylor, county health officer of Aztec, N. M., had written the best definition of a Democrat: "A Democrat is one who believes in the fullest freedom of speech, press and religion, and separation of church and state; laws that bear equally upon all classes, without special privilege or monopolistic advantages; rights of States guaranteed by the Constitution, and less national paternalism...
...rhetorician would approve this statement for its deft use of antithesis; but, since nothing could be more inaccurate, it is not of much value as a comment on the present problems of higher education. Mr. Williams' picture of the student of the nineties entering college athirst for knowledge but enticed away from it by the lure of athletics and managerships does not command credence by its cleverness. One suspects that a good many of Mr. Williams' fellow Freshmen were out quite openly in search of the good time which it appears circumstances forced down his own unwilling throat. Those were...