Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three representative speakers of my childhood there were visible two or three things which are not to be found now. The old type of sonorous oratory has almost gone. In those days men thought they must speak in a sort of architectural way. There was something put upon the speech. It was not sure that everything lay in the speech itself...
There could hardly be a greater contrast to Webster and Everett than Rufus Choate. He was of that great mysterious individuality which those old families of New England hold within themselves. His powers of language and of the use of the most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker...
...MACOMBER, Sec.REHEARSAL of 'Varsity Mandolin Club in 3 Matthews, Wednesday at 4.45. Old and new men must be present...
...which has for a year or more been felt and discussed, has at last been made possible by the will of the late William Lampson '62, by which $750,000 was left to Yale University. Of this sum $150,000 is to be set aside for tearing down the old hall and for building a new one large enough to answer every requirement...
Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the founding of the old Harvard Union. It was enthusiastically celebrated after the business meeting...