While he served in Senate, Adams took the lecture in University Hall to begin his part time job as Harvard’s first Boylston Professor of rhetoric and oratory.
Mrs. Farebrother recurred to her knitting with a dignified satisfaction in her neat little effort at oratory, but this was not what Dorothea wanted to hear. Poor thing!
The Roman philosopher was inspired by Greek philosophy and oratory, which was considered entirely superior. His most crucial life work was to establish a Latin culture of substance.