Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Perhaps no event in the first two years of a student's life at Harvard is looked forward to with greater anticipation, or back upon with greater pleasure than the sophomore dinner. It is the first social gathering of the class as a whole, and is universally regarded as the...
In speaking of the requirements for good acting, Mr. Irving said, "Success does not depend upon a few lessons in declamation, nor upon a study of the tradition of characters; nothing can be worse than a traditional way of interpretation. It is not the attitude nor the tone which is...
Mr. Dougherty closed by saying that the great days of oratory are over. Oratory fell when the printing press rose. The press appeals to thousands, the orator to a few hundreds only. At present the orator's speech is delivered for subsequent publication, not for its immediate effect upon the...
Sever 11 was packed last evening with the audience that througed to hear the great temperance orator, John B. Gough. Mr. Gough's address, while it was filled with vivid stories, brilliant jokes, and the greatest originality, was also powerful in its argument as well as persuasive in its style...
It has been the good fortune of the Shakspere Club to induce one of the most popular orators in America, Mr., Daniel Dougherty, to deliver his famous lecture of "Oratory and Orators." Mr. Dougherty, one of the leading lawyers in Philadelphia, frequently delivers lectures in the larger cities throughout the...