Extempore Speaking, for School and College. E-book. Formato PDF Edwin Dubois Shurter   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

These words may well be heeded by every teacher of. Public speaking. How often do we find that the school or college graduate who has won prizes with memorized orations is handicapped in the actual contests of after life, when he finds that memorized speeches will not always avail him. On the other hand, his classmate who failed to win prizes with set speeches, but who has learned to think on his feet, carries causes and wins verdicts.

How to Debate. E-book. Formato PDF Edwin Dubois Shurter   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

American education is the revival and spread of the practice of debate in our schools and colleges. The debt of England to the numerous debating societies of Oxford and Cambridge has long been recognized, most Of that country's distinguished orators and statesmen having received their first training in these societies. In America, within the past ten or fifteen years, there has come, in and out of the schools and colleges, a noteworthy re vival of the old-time debating lyceum. Inter scholastic athletics have been paralleled by intel lectual athletics in the form of interscholastic debates.