Sentence examples for college speaker from inspiring English sources

Capp (1909-79), whose comic strip "Li'l Abner" ran for 43 years and reached 90 million readers at its peak, was a celebrity: a radio personality, magazine essayist, talk-show regular and college speaker.

Isa is also a national college speaker.

A scholar of politics, culture, and civil rights, he has been an invited college speaker and a sought after guest featured on NPR, the BBC, Sky News, MSN.com, and other national and international media.

Like that young, slightly presumptuous college speaker holding forth at center stage, Chesky then goes on to wrap his company's growing commercial empire in a grandiose vision that he positions as a solution to a civilization gone awry, indeed as a reaction to the wrongful drift of history.

Most college speakers and politicians don't do that".

We have research from the department of psychology at Harvard that if a college commencement speaker drones on for more than 15 minutes, only about a quarter of students continue to pay attention; another quarter drift off to sleep; and the other half — these being undergraduates — engage in sexual fantasies.

Condoleezza Rice has ever right to speak, but not the right to be a college commencement speaker without protest.

I have never been invited to be a college commencement speaker, because of my ideas, and also because I will not bring in donor dollars.

Now, at 62, she is the author of seven novels and 10 nonfiction books, the mother of three grown children aged 31, 29 and 26 and a much sought-after college commencement speaker.

In his talk at the University of San Francisco conference, Chesky crowed, "For us to win, no one has to lose," and like that college commencement speaker he championed his "on-message" message with such a boyishly good-natured enthusiasm that audience members keyed into the hipness and coolness of his rosy version of the world.

High-profile college commencement speakers are under siege this year.