Entries tagged with ‘speech’
Words of Wisdom
“Let us go now in peace. We must not stop here. Divine things await us that are more beautiful than words can tell. However sweet these laid up stores, however convenient this dwelling, we cannot remain here. However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us, we are permitted to receive it but a little while. We […]
Words of Wisdom
“It is time to go, I know…Gustavus has been a home to you for four years, and though you don’t realize in your haste to go just now, you are leaving a home, and to this home you will be coming back, whether in the body or in the spirit all your life, for a […]
Words of Wisdom
Gustavus President Edward A. Lindell said his idea of an ideal college was one in which “everything is second to academic excellence… and Gustavus is well on its way to academic superiority.” Unknown, Gustavian Weekly September 19, 1975
View from the Hill
Forensics teams have a long tradition of competition at Gustavus. The tradition of excellence started with the forming of debating, speech, and parliamentary societies in the 1880s. Traveling orator competition began in the first part of the 20th century and was taken to a new level under the leadership of Evan Anderson in the 1920s. […]
Words of Wisdom
“As you entered you read on the marble slab above the door the name given to this institution―’Gustavus Adolphus College of the Swedish Lutheran Church.’ There is a whole confession of faith in that name. Gustavus Adolphus is a name that shines like a star of the first magnitude with a resplendent luster in the […]