Word: oratore
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Following admission to the Mastership came the "Act," origin of our Commencement Parts. The idea was that the complete Master of Arts ought to show his stuff, as it were, before the university let him go. Commencement parts opened in the thirteenth century, as now, with a Latin speech, which...
Annual Commencement exercises of the Harvard Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa will be held in Fogg Art Museum on June 28 at 11 o'clock. The orator will be Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe; the poet, Winfield Scott. Seth T. Gano '07, President of the Harvard Chapter, will preside.
To support his point, the Pope turned to "the most distinguished orator of ancient Rome," and quoted Cicero:
Everybody could understand every word spoken by Winston Churchill in a speech to the House of Commons and the world last week. In the great manner of a great reporter, orator and historian, Churchill told the Allied peoples much that they had not known before about their war. He also...
The supreme moment came in Parliament's gilt-crested Royal Gallery last fortnight, when King addressed members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of...