Public Speaking

by Clarence Stratton

• Kinds of propositions, [222]
• Knox, Philander, [269]

• Language, [12], [197]
• League of Nations, [269]
• legal brief, [170]
• length of speech, [143]
• library, [136]
• library classification, [138]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [9], [30], [57], [65], [100], [103], [117], [148], [172], [183], [255]
• list of short plays, [314]
• long sentences, [61]
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, [76], [135]
• logical definition, [201]
• Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, [136]

• Macaulay, Thomas Babington, [52], [68], [160], [208], [233], [246], [268]
• making a brief, [187]
• manner in debate, [277]
• margins, [175]
• material of speeches, [121]
• McCumber, P.J., [268]
• memorized conversations, [300]
• memorizing, [28], [191]
• methods of explaining, [198]
• military leadership, [5]

• Naturalness, [292]
• nominating speech, [287]
• notes, [133]

• Observation, [122]
• organs of speech, [14]
• organ pipe, [14]
• Otis, James, [88]
• outline, [28],[164]

• Panama Canal, [110]
• particulars of general statement, [205]
• partition, [199]
• Penn, William, [258]
• periodicals, [139]
• peroration, [109]
• persuading, [218]
• persuasion, [237]
• persuasive speech, [288]
• Phillips, Wendell, [185]
• phrasing, [22]
• pitch, [21]
• place, [211]
• plan, [156]
• plays, characters in, [303]
• plays, producing, [315]
• plays, short, [313]
• plays, studying, [310]
• poise, [25]
• pose, [25]
• Power Plant Engineering, [187]
• prefixes, [41]
• preparation for debate, [266]
• preparing introductions, [89]
• preparing the conclusion, [95]
• presentation and acceptance, speeches of, [284]
• presiding officer, [261]
• presiding officers, [279]
• producing plays, [315]
• pronunciation, [24]
• proof, [232]
• proposition, [221], [265]
• propositions of fact, [223]
• propositions of policy, [223]
• proving, [218]

• Reading, [128]
• reading the speech, [27]
• rebuttal, restrictions, [276]
• rebuttal speeches, [266]
• recapitulation, [106]
• reducing to absurdity, [258]
• reductio ad absurdum, [253]
• refuting, [242], [251]
• rehearsing, [321]
• residues, [234]
• results of training, [10]
• retrospective conclusion, [101], [105]
• Roget's Thesaurus, [43]
• rôles, assigning, [312]
• Romance, [51]
• Roosevelt, Theodore, [69], [100], [101], [104], [109], [114]

• Sanitation, [70]
• scenery, [316]
• scholastic debating, [265]
• selecting material, [130]
• selections for briefing, [180]
• self-criticism, [192]
• sentences, [58]
• Shakespeare, [304]
• short plays, [313]
• short sentences, [61]
• Sidney, Sir Phillip, [90]
• simple sentence, [58]
• sincerity, [292]
• singing, [18]
• speakers in debate, [272]
• speaking from the brief, [191]
• speaking from the floor, [70]
• special occasions, speaking upon, [278]
• specific terms, [52]
• specimen brief, capital punishment, [173]
• speech in modern life, [2]
• speed, [20]
• stage, [316]
• statistics, [187]
• studying plays, [310]
• suffixes, [43]
• summary, [107]
• Sumner, Charles, [148], [160], [234]
• support of a measure, [288]
• syllogism, [229]
• symbols, [176]
• synonyms, [46]

• Table of contents, [130]
• tabulations, [178]
• talk, [5]
• taking notes, [133]
• team work, [271]
• theme, choosing a, [281]
• Thesaurus, [43]
• thinking, [161]
• thought, [12]
• time limit in debates, [265]
• time order, [210]
• time order reversed, [211]
• tone, [15], [19]
• tradition, [248]
• transitions, [157]
• trite expressions, [55]
• Twain, Mark, [145]

• Understanding, [129], [196]
• unity, [152]