oratorship

Updated: May 17, 2025

"I ranked second in a class of one hundred and eighty in my law examinations, won the second prize for the best graduating thesis, received a complimentary vote for class oratorship, and much to my surprise was soon after offered an assistant superintendency of the public schools by the school board, who knew nothing of my studies and thought my work as a teacher worthy of promotion.

Warren Hilton - Initiative Psychic Energy: Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the: Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and: Business Efficiency

When last fall the students of the Amherst agricultural college elected the captain of their football team, they took as their leader a young man of the dark race. A few years since a class in Harvard awarded their highest honor, the class oratorship, to Mr. Bruce of Mississippi, of negro blood.

George Spring Merriam - The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

With this, and his annuity, and the advantage of his College, and of his Oratorship, he enjoyed his genteel humour for clothes, and Court-like company, and seldom looked towards Cambridge, unless the King were there, but then he never failed; and, at other times, left the manage of his Orator's place to his learned friend, Mr. Herbert Thorndike, who is now Prebend of Westminster.

Izaak Walton - Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2