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In looking through a scrapbook compiled during the 1920s, I came upon the following article from the March 14, 1927 issue of TIME, under Russia and the title "Orator Orating":
The 1951 Class Day committee yesterday announced the selection of John Cowles, Jr. of Eliot House and Minneapolis as Class Orator and of John R. W. Smail of Kirkland House and Kent, Conn., as Ivy Orator for the Class Day exercises at 3 p.m. on June 19 in the Sever...
The Threat Remains. Thin, bald and aging (70), the new Premier is a rich landowner who was educated in France, has an honorary LL.D. from Oxford. In a country where political skulduggery is the rule, he has remained an honest man. He is rated an able orator, often gets so...
The committee set Monday, May 7 as the deadline for submission of entries. Positions open to seniors are Class Poet, Odist, Class Orator, Ivy Orator, and Chorister. Applicants should submit their entries to the secretary at Phillips Brooks House; choristers should apply to Professor Woodworth.
¶Charles James Fox justified his schoolboy reputation. He grew up to be the greatest orator of his day, supported both the American and French Revolutions, urged abolition of the slave trade and self-government for Ireland. Sir Joshua Reynolds was experimenting with carmines when he painted him; they faded...