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In the U. S. this exiled Irish statesman was something of a novelty. He was a rigid teetotaler. He was a reserved scholar who liked to solve mathematical problems, study Thomistic philosophy, play an organ. As an orator he was almost flat; he neither talked about personalities nor used extravagant...
This completes the selection of Class officers, the marshalls and other positions having been filled in the voting on February 29. The ivy orator will be chosen following a competition later in the Spring, judged by the marshalls and the Class Day Committee.
Lean, black-a-vised, hollow-eyed, Monsignor Sheen is a persuasive, lucid speaker, with a well-cultivated voice, who can make religion sensible and attractive to great masses of people. Though his official job is teaching philosophy at the Catholic University in Washington, he fills 150 speaking dates a year...
That was probably the last time that anyone suggested that there was anything inadequate about Fulton J. Sheen. With the spread of the Catholic Hour (from 22 to 95 NBC stations), Monsignor Sheen gets 3,000 to 6,000 letters a day, the Hour itself draws 27,000 a week...
Hypnotized by the power and harmony of his voice, fascinated by his flowing phrases, the listeners responded to the orator's least gesture and subtlest inflection. They groaned with him as he pictured the miseries of the Western people. Thunderous applause greeted his proclamation of "the cause of humanity." As...