Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religious influence of Yale, and declared that everywhere the public demand is "that our young men shall have the side of faith and reverence strengthened rather than weakened. And the educated man asks that he shall be guided aright." We must argue from the words of the speaker that the course of Harvard is truly a course of progress, and as such is slowly forcing itself on the minds of the faculty and of the president of Yale. Dr. Porter said that he felt as if he were pronouncing his own funeral oration. Was he not rather in reality pronouncing...
...appeared a report of the meeting of the Yale alumni. The choice of a successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly with Harvard, but although she has not at present so many undergraduates...
...large audience assembled last evening in Sever 11 to hear Mr. John G. Brook's fourth and last lecture on Modern Socialism. It was the most interesting of the course; perhaps from the earnestness shown by the speaker, as well as from the subject matter itself...
...minutes speeches, commit them to memory, and then declaim them. To our mind a debating society is not the place for declamation; but aside from that, the method is very ineffective, and ridicule oftener than approbation is manifested by the listeners. An assembly usually greatly prefers to hear a speaker who hesitates and stumbles in his remarks, provided they are extemporaneous, than one who fires off at short range a carefully prepared and committed speech, though it may be faultless in form and logical in argument...
...delivery, and however much they are popular in their own country, to gain respect for an American audience, they must at least be able to express themselves in a moderately effective manner. The day is fast coming when it shall be an imperative necessity to become a well-trained speaker in order to gain the ear of any cultivated assemblage...