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Representative College Orations (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Representative College Orations The Specimen College Orations, contained in an appen dix to the editor's The Rhetoric of Oratory, suggested the publication, in a separate volume, of a larger collection of representative college orations. The sixty-three orations in the present volume will furnish a better opportunity for comparison and a far greater variety of illustrative matter than was possible in the volume first referred to. Although collections of college orations representing cer tain sections or organizations. Have been published from time to time, the present volume is the first to cover the whole field of American college oratory. It would be impossible, of course, to ...
Representative College Orations
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The Use of Words in Context
The Speech Situation is a term worn with age in the teaching of public speaking in America. That it is comprised of occasion, speaker, and topic is a gross oversimplification. It also includes challenge, anxiety, emotion, fear, responsibility, faults of memory, and instants of pride. Out of the circumstances arise an increase in heart rate, a change in blood pressure, an abnormal pattern of breathing, a noticeable build up in perspiration, and an ongoing evaluation. For students this may be merely a grade or perhaps a series of evaluative remarks, possibly addressed both to the speaker and the other participants, the audience. It may entail a replaying of a record of the speech, indeed a vid...
