Word: rostrum
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...public speakers or newspapers that now, when the nation is at war, is the time to advance the interests of any one class, relying on the weakening power of Government to quell internal disorder, have an ugly sound. Public speakers are somewhat inclined to wax grandiloquent in the rostrum or over the after-dinner coffee and cigars, dreaming that their words make the nation shake. The newspapers are the German papers, which still consider themselves aggrieved, and continue to cry out against "perfidious Albion," who is our ally. But it is not pro-Germans alone who, by word, are striving...
...judging a sermon or an oration as literature it must be remembered that it was not originally written to be read. It must be prepared with regard to its effect when delivered from the pulpit or the rostrum. Taking this fact into consideration, these sermons are readable to an unusual degree. Dr. McKenzie has departed somewhat from the conventional sermon, and he might do so to an even greater extent with benefit...
...letters in the world." Gen. Porter's speech was brilliant, witty and full of pleasantries. Professor William M. Sloane responded to the toast "The debate." Professor Henry F. Osborne made the last speech on "Intercollegiate contests." Prof. Osborne's remarks abounded in pleasant comparisons of contests on the rostrum, the diamond and the gridiron...
George William Curtis was a leader of men. He was such because he was himself a man, a whole man and a true man. He was always, in private as in public, in the home or on the street as upon the rostrum, the knight without peer and without reproach. His fires never paled. What he was before the public, that he was in the grain...
Prizes are offered as follows: For the best essay, $50; best story, $50; best poem, $15; second best essay, $50; second best essay, $50; second best poem, $10; best editorial in rostrum, $25. The essays and stories are limited to 6,000 words, and the poems to 40 lines...