Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Chancellor's last speech of the campaign was shouted from atop a dynamo in Berlin's vast Siemens & Halske electric works. To hear him by radio all German factory workers stopped work for one hour. This time-out the workers had to make up later by working...
Whittier "really deserves a place with Walt Whitman among our great American poets," unconvinced readers may still prefer James Russell Lowell's dictum: "If we should attempt to depict the peculiar characteristic of Whittier, we should say that of all poets he most truly deserved the name orator."
At Harvard Commencement, officially opened by ancient custom by the blue-coated, top-hatted, be-sworded High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Alfred Emanuel Smith was given an LL. D. de gree. To rousing applause Citizen Smith was saluted by a class orator: "Te quoque, Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles, quamquam...
The Latin Oration, which to those few who can understand it adds a light note to the exercises, is delivered traditionally at the opening of every Commencement. Besides Smith, the orator today addressed "praeses et socii," (President and Fellows); "decani" (deans); "professores, praeceptores, tutoresque" (professors, instructors, and tutors); "gubernator praeclare...
While Governor Cross sought, perhaps, deliberately, to cloud an issue already difficult for youthful comprehension, Mr. Donal M. Sullivan, the Senior Class orator, brought an aggressive faith to bear on the recuperative powers of the party system. The emotional appeal of his bitter reference to the generation which had taught...