Word: chatauqua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...daily trials being conducted by Coach H. B. Huntington '97, contestants for the University team are slowly narrowing down, and in a few days the team will be picked. With the cooperation of Coach Huntington, Mr. Frank B. Armitage, an experienced Chatauqua speaker, has instituted an entirely new system of training. The men's voices are carefully diagnosed, remediable physical defects are corrected when possible, and suitable exercises recommended. By means of a dictagraph the speaker's voice is transferred to a record which can be reproduced, so that defects are plainly shown, and with the help of the coach...