Word: rostrum
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...Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations to the rostrum have brought a meagre response...
Thus was the public prepared for a tremendous fiscal-esthetic event. The art world whispered names that would surely stir the auction-Mellon, Bache, Widener, Ringling. Preparations were made to broadcast the epochal proceedings to the nation. When the bald auctioneer briskly mounted the rostrum, he surveyed a tight-packed attendance of more than...
According to Swigert the dropping of the Yale-Princeton meeting is not connected with the withdrawal last Friday of the Council from the Intercollegiate Debating League, and it was further stated that Harvard would meet both colleges on the rostrum...
...Council decided to abandon the aim of victory in order to have greater freedom on the rostrum. They believe that their debating methods and qualities will no longer be subordinated to the material reward of defeating their opponents...
...having to court a decision, the Harvard-Carleton speakers in Paine Hall could afford to step down from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions...