Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side for an army so much larger than that of their opponents arose from the fact that the Confederate forces could all be used in campaigning, while being in hostile territory every captured town, every hospital, and every source of supply had to be guarded by Union troops. The speaker thought that the effect of the difference in the ability of the generals pitted against each other was overrated; the enthusiasm and discipline of the army as often decided the battle as the leaders...
...Leonidas La C. Hamilton, delivered a very interesting lecture in Lyceum Hall last evening, on the "New Science." The lecture was a practical statement of a new theory by which the speaker is to explain the action of gravity, in a forthcoming work...
...sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations which might have been heard for a mile, read an address and a poem." The address was a very amusing eulogy on the character and merits of the dearly beloved and highly respected game. After the address the gifted speaker read a poem in honor of the deceased, which was an excellent parody on the "Burial of Sir John Moore...
...sufficient to attract the attendance of a large body of students. This is perfectly natural. A man studying a certain profession, take the law as an example, is sure to derive great pleasure and benefit from a lecture on that subject; he goes with the idea that the speaker will give his views on the law as a profession; that he will tell the student of the prospects a lawyer has, who is to-day launching out into the profession; that he will speak to him of the difficulties which at first surround the beginner and of the many disagreeable...
...Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford, lectured on "Notoriety in Art" last evening, before a large and appreciative audience in Sever 11. Popularity, the speaker said, comes to work of a commonplace character too often. There is a course of indolence which hangs over work in art. The artist is compelled to choose between two audiences, the public or his fellow artists. The public are the makers of the artist's notoriety. The great drawback upon an artist's work is the "art-loafer" who talks himself and the artist into notoriety. Too easy publicity prevents the artist...