Word: speech
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appears in another column) now at No. 10 Dana street, Cambridge, is experienced in practical elocution and voice culture, and is recommended by Madam Edna Hall of Boston and Professor Churchill of Andover. Miss Wehster has been especially successful in helping those who have been troubled with impediments of speech, throat defects, and the numerous hindrances to easy and distinct rendering in both elocution and vocal music, due to incorrect breathing and to ill use of the vocal organs. She will be pleased to meet any who may be desirous of studying either privately or in classes...
...opportunity of visiting the University. President Dwight and the heads of the different departments received the visitors in the new Clititenden library, and then the various buildings were inspected. At the banquet tendered the delegates by the Chamber of Commerce, Professor Knapp of Yale welcomed the visitors in a speech in Spanish to their great delight. Professor Knapp then acted as interpreter to the South American delegates and amongst the speakers were Senator Calderon, of Venezuela, President Dwight of Yale, and Senator J. B. Henderson of Missouri...
...oratory flourished at a very early date. The cultivation of oratory was a necessity among the Greeks as every man was obliged to conduct his own case in court. The law demanded that he should plead his own cause, but it was not necessary that he should write his speech. Hence arose the logographos whose business it was to write speeches. It was in this capacity that Lysias was most active...
...merchant of Piraeus. His father's wealth enabled him to associate with the leading men of the city, and to pursue his education in the best schools of Athens. The period of his literary activity began soon after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, when he delivered his famous speech against Eratosthenes. It lasted about thirty years, during which time he wrote over two hundred speeches. The chief characteristic of Lysias style was his ability to adapt the speech to the character of the person who delivered...
...from the Common last year, because that was for the people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily exercise of their powers of locomotion and speech. Is there no other grass in the city? or no other pump? If we could stop this invasion for a week or so the habit would be weakened, and we should all get better marks in our examinations...