What is Your Culture to Me?

Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascendthe platform, and there to stand and deliver. The voice was the voice ofPresident North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used byCicero and Julius Caesar. I remember the flattering invitation--it is theclassic tag that clings to the graduate long after he has forgotten thegender of the nouns that end in 'um--orator proximus', the grateful voicesaid, 'ascendat, videlicet,' and so forth. To be proclaimed an orato