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In the wave of socialist, reformist thinking that swept the western U.S. farm country and the Knights of Labor after the Civil War, two notable fantasies of the future were written. Caesar's Column, by that stanch Populist orator and Baconian, Ignatius Donnelly, depicted the late 20th Century as...
Judges for the selection of the Ivy Orator were Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, chairman of the Class Day Committee, Second Marshal Ernest J. Sargeant '40, and Samuel W. White, Jr. '40, member of the Class Day Committee.
Duff Cooper got his opportunity thus to sound off against the German people when he was suddenly called on to pinch-hit for Winston Churchill at a meeting of the Royal Society of St. George. First Lord Churchill had gone to sit in on the Allied Supreme War Council somewhere...
Professor Elmer E. Nyberg, who teaches public speaking at New York University, revised and enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E...
Robert A. Brooks '40 outspoke nine other finalists to become Boylston Prize Orator last night in the annual contest at Paine Hall. Delivering the Apology of Socrates in the original Greek, Brooks, a Lowell House resident, was awarded a first prize of $50 in the ancient competition which dates from...