Word: hillyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play is sponsored by a large group of professors here, including Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, and Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English...
...Morrison returned to Harvard. After six years of shuttling around in the English department, he took over English A from Professor Hillyer, his own former instructor. He headed the course a year before the President knew it had changed hands, and he would still rather talk about its program and purpose than about himself...
Praised by Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, who was in general charge of the contest, as one of the closest and most successful yet witnessed, the speeches varied in their subject matter from Lincoln's Second Inaugural to T. E. Eliot's Christmas Sermon from Murder in the Cathedral. The winning selections were excerpts from the "Areopagitica" of Milton and from the Book of Revelations...
Despite wartime exigencies, the contest was only slightly more informal than that of last year. The scene of action was moved from traditional Paine Hall and the participants were not in normal dress. Professor Hillyer conducted the speeches from the floor and expressed regret that Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of oratory and Rhetoric, emeritus, was unable to serve as honorary judge...
Judging the annual competition for the Boylston prizes for Elocution, to be held in Emerson D tonight at 8 o'clock, will be the Reverend Mr. Palfrey Perkins '05, John M. Maguire, professor of Law, and Frederick C. Packard, Jr., asociate Professor of Public Speaking. Robert S. Hillyer, Jr., Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will preside...