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Vice President Nixon has told friends that he has neither the talent nor the personality to be a great orator. But by the time he was halfway through his acceptance speech-much of it memorized, some of it extemporized, all of it the result of weeks of reading and scribbling...
¶ But not quite the same steps. Havardman Clemens Morgan was Class orator, not Commencement orator, delivered his Class Day oration in English, not Latin.-ED.
In the Education section, you described Gregson Davis as "the first Negro so honored," as chosen commencement orator at Harvard.
May I call your attention to "A Negro Student at Harvard," by W.E.B. Du Bois, in the current Massachusetts Review? Du Bois describes the election of Clemens Morgan, a Negro student, as class orator of Harvard, 1890.
Lost Prize. All Britain mourned the passing of the wild-haired Welshman who, in 30 years of public life, had never quite made it to the top. Except for Churchill, Nye Bevan was the greatest orator Britain has known in this century. His lilting, cadenced speech struck passion into friends...