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Edward Everett Hale, 1839, the famous orator who spoke before Lincoln at Gettysburg, had "The Supposed Degeneracy of Our Age" for his graduation topic. Francis Parkman. 1842, who later wrote "The Oregon Trail" and other well known works, spoke at Commencement on "Romance in America."
I refer of course to the new and improved method of selecting the Ivy Orator. It is my understanding that the Ivy Orator is the man chosen for his nimble wit who injects the spirit of jolly good fun into the otherwise rather funereal Commencement proceedings. In the past this...
There was something to be said for the end; the means are ridiculous. As things are now, the candidate must seek the office, not the office the candidate. The aspiring Senior must present a trial oration to a Council deputation, in an effort to prove his facile humor. To this...
At Königsberg one of his weepy moods overtook Orator Hitler. "Do you think this struggle has been easy for me?" he pathetically asked the throng. "It is consuming my nerves and my strength. I am not growing any younger. I realize that things which I once could do...
Thus the beauty of Orator Hitler's daily and twice-daily speeches to German voters last week was that he said almost everything backwards as well as forwards in alternate moods similar to Wagnerian music and having a similar appeal to the German soul. Intellectual tests of consistency the...