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A Fourth-of-July orator, so the oft-told story goes, was delivering a speech about Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln when, ready for the windup, he forgot their names. Glancing quickly toward the notes stuffed in his inside coat pocket, the flustered speaker hurriedly praised "those great American statesmen, Hart...
As a high-school senior, John Sherman was captain of the military training unit, president of his class, commencement orator (his subject: "The German Spy System") and class poet. In 1918 he went off to Kentucky's football-famed Centre College, and a year later he entered Yale. At...
The bold signatures on the Declaration of L Independence registered the birth of a nation on July 4, 1776, as every Fourth of July orator is proud to relate. But the oratory frequently overlooks the fact that another Glorious Fourth-July 4, 1863-marked the climax of the battle to...
Half a year earlier, the senior class had voted for its officers. Nine men; Winslow Carlton, Forrester A. Clark, James de Normandie, Arthur E. French, Jr., David Guarnaccia, James L. Reid, Richard A. Stout, John Tudor, and William S. Young-man, Jr. were nominated for marshals; Hulburd Johnston and Alan...
Disregarding the CRIMSON's full page ad from "Vanity Fair" asserting that true popularity could only be gained through monthly perusal of the magazine's aesthetic pages, the Class of 1929 chose athletes for the three top posts. French, Guarnaccia, and Clark were elected marshals. For other positions CRIMSON president...