Stephens Declamation Topics

Here are the topics for this week’s Phi Kappa event, the Stephens Declamation! Participants are to choose one of the following nine options and then must speak for five minutes. If you wish to participate and haven’t contacted Sister Shuck yet, please do so as soon as possible!

People:

Joseph LeConte

Alexander Stephens

Carl Sanders

Resolutions:

BIHR: Imagination is more important than knowledge

BIHR: Ignorance begets confidence

BIHR: Membership to one of the literary societies at the University of Georgia ought be a requirement of graduation.

Quotes:

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”