Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best orator: Homer S. Brown
Lenin, an economist, politician, agitator; Trotsky, an editor, strategist, orator; Radek, a journalist; Chicherin, son of an aristocratic family; Kamanev, a student of law; Rykov, Lenin's secretary; Zinoviev, a master of intrigue, a practical politician, "Lenin's greatest mistake"; Stalin, then 38, an editor; Bukharin, a dry...
Since the site of the orations was shifted from Sanders Theatre to the Stadium in 1905, they have lost whatever serious tone they had retained up to that time. In 1910 humorist Frank Sullivan was the Ivy Orator, and was followed two years later by Robert Benchley '12.
Selection of Ivy Orator for 1989 will take place at 3:20 this afternoon in Bolden Chapel. Professor Packard will preside, while members of the Class Day Committee will choose the winner from the three contestants who survived a preliminary competition held earlier this spring.
The selection of the Junior Ushers completes the selection of officers for the Commencement program with the exception of the Ivy Orator, who will be picked before May 17.