Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...within the narrow bounds of the nest, it confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then does it learn its own weakness. The retirement of the study is well enough so far as it goes, but there is nothing like the rostrum for taking the conceit out of a man. The sooner and oftener he gets upon it and is made to learn from the bitterness of defeat the depth of his own ignorance, the more he will prize both study and rostrum as means...
...There is one more point upon which we must animadvert, and this is the miserable delivery of the Harvard graduates. After each inevitable expectatur of the President, a youth was seen to mount the rostrum with all the awkwardness of persons who feel themselves in a false position, heightened by the uncouthness of a barbarous habillement, which he had evidently never proved. After more or less unsystematic bowing, each gave his proof of memory for bad prose with all the systematic regularity of cadence exhibited by a machine." - The Round Table, August...
Abjure the rostrum, lay aside...