Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Secretary Lamar is the speaker at last selected by the Dartmouth union to address the class on Commencement...
...Historical Society and the college at large have every reason for gratification at the first lecture of the series given last night in Sanders theatre. The audience did the speaker justice both by its quality and attention. There is no better illustration of the decay of the old prejudices than to have lectures such as these within the walls of Memorial from the lips of one who fought on the other side...
...Civil war, and it was given with such grace and ease, combined with thorough knowledge of the situation, that the attention of the audience was kept at a high degree of interest. Many amusing incidents and patriotic references were cited, which kept the audience in pleasant communion with the speaker. Major Hotchkiss began by stating that there are three things in a campaign that are important. 1. The topography of the field of action. 2. Purposes of campaign. 3. The results. The first was carefully shown upon the blackboard, and the latter two were so ably discussed that the listener...
...desk in Sever 11. The gas jets are so arranged as to throw their full glare on the lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
...great care. The modern French method of magazine writing may be followed to advantage. This system provides for an introduction and the division of the essay proper under various legitimate, well ordered heads. The exposition should be as concise as possible and ought to exhibit independent thorough study. The speaker properly complained of a desire upon the part of many writers to assimilate rather than to invent and on the part of more, rather to arrange the work of others than to assimilate it. As the next forensic is to be of some length, all are advised to select...