Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*His father, a Greek clergyman-orator; his mother, Georgina Mandic, a Serbian inventress of household thingamajigs. "Her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash" when she was past 60. Dr. Tesla migrated to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Alva Edison, whom...
In the clipping. Dr. Jordan was hailed by Stanford's 1931 class orator as one of the three great U. S. Educators of the past 50 years. The other two: the late Charles William Eliot of Harvard, the late Andrew Dickson White of Cornell.-ED.
The tree oration, open to Seniors only, will be held sometime in the afternoon of Class Day, but as yet no selection has been made of the Tree Orator. While the Tree Oration is being held the Alumni will form for the march to the Stadium, where the Ivy Oration...
...Washington last week went seven high school students, winners of sectional oratorical contests conducted by newspapers throughout the land. To hear them orate in competition for the U. S. championship there assembled one night in Constitution Hall 5,000 people and five judges -U. S. Senator Thomas James Walsh, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union, President William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown University, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington University, Chancellor Lucius Charles Clark of American University. Timekeepers held whistles poised while the seven delivered set speeches on the U. S. Constitution and four-minute extemporaneous orations...
"Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for...