Rev. Thomas J. Travers: lecturer

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Rev. Thomas J. Travers Lecturer

Lectures

What Is Worth While?
Daniel O'Connell
Justice for the Worker


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THOMAS J. TRAVERS

Announcement
IN presenting Rev. Thomas J. Travers, the management offers to the public a proven success.  His various qualities as an orator conspire to inspire and entertain an American audience.  An easy and graceful delivery, a strong and poetic diction, a delicate humor illustrative of his thought, are marked characteristics of this orator.  In the development of his thought a logical bent of mind, and a unique point of view, reveal themselves, and explain his wonderful control of his audience.  They evoke an unwearied interest and the closest attention.  The appreciation which has always followed his efforts in the past is an earnest of the enjoyment of his future audiences.  During the past year his lectures have won for him an enviable reputation as a master in his field.  His hearers are deeply impressed with his evident devotion to his subject and the wide reading which they betray.  A sympathetic voice, a strong personality, and a remarkably clear enunciation combine to make the subject of this announcement a type of the genuine orator.  His new lecture, Justice for the Worker, is timely, and will make a broad appeal.



LECTURES

Daniel O'Connell.
A lecture depicting in a masterful way the life and times of the greatest constitutional agitator the world has ever seen, which was Gladstone's characterization of O'Connell.

What Is Worth While.
A lecture on the things that make life worth living.  A stimulant to plain living and high thinking.

Justice for the Worker.
A lecture on social justice.  The world is slowly realizing the solidarity of the human race.  The misery of one finally becomes the misery of all.  The evil effect of the Industrial Revolution on the worker still persists, and the worker, nay, society at large, can never be safe and happy till justice is secured for those that toil.






REPRESENTATIVE REFERENCES
Rev. P. J. McCorry, prominent lecturer, Chicago, Ills.

The whole lecture on Daniel O'Connell was thoroughly elevating and instructive, but I desire particularly to commend the eloquent, the inspiring peroration, which was a finely wrought piece of art.

President Charles T. Grawn, Michigan State Normal:

After hearing Rev. T. J. Travers at a teachers' institute, Pres. Grawn said: This gathering owes a debt of gratitude to this morning's speaker.  His words have given us all a higher conception of the dignity of our calling, and a nobler appreciation of the purposes for which we are striving.  I am sure this inspiring address has had a tonic effect on the audience.

Superintendent Copeland, of Fairmount, Ind. schools:

Altogether admirable was the manner in which you portrayed the vast field of opportunities that lies before the young American.  Your address before the commencement audience, at the high school, will mark an epoch in the lives of the young people who heard it.


Indianapolis Star, March 18, 1907:
Five thousand people, with hearts that beat as one, listened yesterday afternoon to an eloquent and masterly exposition of the genius of the Celtic race given by the Rev. T. J. Travers.

Rev. John Cassidy, Corning (N. Y.) Council, Knights of Columbus:

If vigorous ideas, forceful character, and courageous spirit are what you seek in a lecturer, you cannot do better than engage Rev. T. J. Travers, for he has these qualities in the highest degree.

John J. Meehan, President A. O. H., Muncie, Ind.:

The skill of the speaker to inspire, and the knowledge to instruct were much in evidence in Father Travers' lecture here last St. Patrick's day.  Frequent and hearty applause attested Muncie's appreciation of his effort.  Studies that have issued in clear ideas and strong convictions make this lecturer a most desirable one.  The Muncie Hibernians gladly give evidence to the wit and humor, the power and intensity of this lecture.


Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind., March 18, 1906:
Father Travers was presented by Mr. James Hayes, president of the A. O. H.  For more than an hour, the audience followed with eager sympathy his graphic picture of the Great Liberator's career.  The address was enthusiastically received, and the lecturer received a flattering ovation.




REFERENCES
J. C. Young, Lecturer, Huntington (Ind.), Knights of Columbus Council:

Rev. T. J. Travers spoke for the Knights of Columbus at their annual Columbus Day celebration here this year, and his lecture was considered a triumph.  His education, his scholarship, and his power of selection of vital ideas stamp him as a most attractive lecturer.  He may, I would judge, always count on securing a large audience in this or any other city in which he has spoken.

Rev. William Frawley, Chancellor Peoria (Ill.) Council Knights of Columbus:

No mistake will be made in engaging Rev. T. J. Travers for lectures.  His discourses are sound, instructive and entertaining.


Summitville, Ind., Journal:
Rev. T. J. Travers spoke at the commencement exercises last night.  His lecture, What is Worth While, was pronounced magnificent by all who heard it.

H. Gratten Hogan, Pres. Ft. Wayne (Ind.) A. O. H.:

Your lecture here made our celebration of St. Patrick's day a phenominal success.


Fairmount (Ind.) Journal:
Thomas T. Travers is a lecturer of the first rank.  His mind is analytical, his descriptive powers are wonderful, and his style of elecution compels the closest attention.  Vital principles animate his lecture, and make it a highly instructive one to his hearers.


Indianapolis News:
He captured his audience at the beginning, and held it to the end.  His discourse was a profound one, but at the same time very graceful in construction, and well illustrated by humorous anecdotes.

Doctor Albert Rivers, Portage, N. Y.:

Your lecture was simply magnificent.  Everybody that heard it is enthused over it.

Richard H. Hartford, Portland, Ind.;

As a lecturer, Father Travers has few equals.  Of great natural capacity, developed by a sound and thorough education, he is a scholarly man, in the sense of the word as understood by scholars.  His discourses are wholesome, not bizarre. He seeks to interest, instruct and edify, not to astonish, his hearers.  He addresses himself to his subject with dignity and respect, and reaches the hearts of his hearers by plain and intelligent reasoning, without exaggerating the merits of the one side, or the faults of the other.  An orator of the first order, he is, by natural gift and by acquirement, one of the most interesting, instructive and useful lecturers in America