Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MONDAY evening, the 18th, was public night at the Institute. The orator of the evening was Mr. Charles Isham, and the poet Mr. W. L. Chase.
There was a time when Latin was the vehicle of all thought. The modern languages being not yet fixed, if a man wished to be understood he must speak Latin; if he wished to be read he must write in Latin. All works on theology, science, philosophy, history, and grammar...
The literary entertainment of the evening opened with a short speech from the President, Mr. H. P. Jaques, in which he congratulated the class on the occasion which had brought them together, occurring as it does but once during the course, and said that he hoped the event of the...
We do not propose here to discuss the claims of oratory. Everybody - even our conservative friend of the Advocate - who knows the means by which free speech is made influential in a democracy like ours, will, theoretically at least, take its utility for granted. The question at issue is the...
It would be pleasant for both speaker and hearer if this could be otherwise; if the orator, with only a scholar's preparation, could spring full-armed to life, like Minerva from the Thunderer's brow. We should then be spared the blunders and failures of the young orator in...