Word: chatauqua
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Southwest Texas, then a collection of six drab stone buildings set amid giant live oaks and honeysuckle atop steep Chatauqua Hill, was, and still is, on no one's list of top colleges. Yet it gave the free-swinging youth plenty of elbow room. Since Johnson City school was unaccredited and had only eleven grades, Lyndon first had to take a sub-college cram course at San Marcos to qualify, was found fit in just three months, entered in March...
...real A.D.A.-type organization is needed for the defense of civil rights," Cherington continued. "A.D.A. ought to be a general Chatauqua for genuine liberals--not just a pressure group...
...Chatauqua comes to the University tonight, at least at first glance. No less than five lectures, including the second in the Charles Eliot Norton series given this year by E. E. Cummings '15, will be on tap here...
...closing of registration for the annual Bolyston and Lee Wade Public Speaking Prizes on Monday begins a contest of interest, practical and traditional. The need for public speaking ability in all walks of life, is now more generally recognized than ever before. No longer do Chatauqua orations and famous trials make the prominent demands upon public speaking ability. Business men are now compelled to be more than amusing in their after dinner speeches. Engineers are more frequently forced to face large gatherings of experts and to unfold the advantages of the plans they are submitting. The surgeon in his clinic...
...there are considerations which lead one to expect that it may be ineffectual. The salient difference between the western independent and his Nebraska predecessor, stands in the way. Bryan knew only the politics of a presidential campaign. Otherwise his agitation was rather academic. He could mount a chatauqua platform without bothering political compeers. But Borah, now so much of a figure in the Senate, cannot enter New York politics without prudence; and prudence rather devitalizes a crusader. One is inclined to believe that Mr. Borah will value his independent reputation in the Senate, as the firm and incorruptible...