Dr. Charles C. Miller: lecturer

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DR. CHARLES C. MILLER LECTURER
UNDER MANAGEMENT OF
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BOSTON   PHILADELPHIA   COLUMBUS   CHICAGO



CHARLES C. MILLER, PH. D.

Introductory
THE art of the successful lecturer is to command attention while imparting knowledge in a form which flows easily into the thought of the average man and woman.  This gift is possessed to an eminent degree by Dr. Charles C. Miller, the distinguished Ohio educator and orator.

A many-sided life, spent with due proportion in contact with men and affairs, in the close companionship of books, and in travel,—all made fruitful by analytical thought,—has provided that reservoir of knowledge from which the foundations of his addresses are drawn.  Clothed in the choicest English, which is at once a lesson and an illumination, embellished by the resources of wit, garnished by gleams of humor, and made impressive by well formed periods and passages of eloquence, his popular lectures sustain interest because they clothe solid substance with the charm of an engaging literary style and a magnetic manner.

Dr. Miller is an Ohio man who has carried the fame of the State beyond its borders.  His whole life has been spent in the profession of imparting ideas and cultivating character.  For fifteen years he was a superintendent of public education in important cities.  He has been the State School Commissioner of Ohio and is now the President of Lima College.  During all this time he has practiced the arts of oratory in all parts of the country and upon every variety of occasion.

His lectures are characterized, as to their solider elements, by historical research and the philosophy of life.  Extremely popular are those discourses which analyze the complex conditions which face the young man of the twentieth century, although many prefer his searching studies of the significance of the lives of Hamilton, Napoleon and Burr.

To an impressive and engaging platform presence, Dr. Miller adds a private personality of such intellectual and social traits, as make him a charming companion in any company.  He has the enduring qualities either on or off the platform, because he is a high type of the American gentleman and scholar.

Of him a prominent Cincinnati divine, whose friendship extended over years, wrote:

Professor C. C. Miller is frank and genial, warm hearted and generous.  He is affable and courteous, and his social qualities are of the highest.  He makes friends readily, and then grapples them to himself with hooks of steel.  He has dignity, but it is the dignity of genuine manhood, and not a stilted affectation, nor a cold, haughty pride.  He is unassuming in manner, and invites confidence rather than repels.  Professor Miller is a sincere man.  His qualities are solid.  His joviality is an outflow of his own good nature.  As a speaker he stands in the front rank.  His accomplishments are various, his knowledge is thorough, his reading is wide.  He has genius of the highest kind.





Subjects

I
The Young Man of the Twentieth Century
II
Reserve Power
III
Alexander Hamilton
IV
Napoleon, The Man of Destiny
V
Turning Points in Great Lives
VI
Present-Day Grial of Aaron Burr



Comments of Prominent Educators, Ministers and the Press

Harrisburg (Pa.) Call
An ever popular speaker, versatile, accurate and eloquent


Globe-Democrat
One of the best we have heard in St. Louis before the Ohio Society.


Oil City (Pa.) Derrick
Dr. Miller gave his celebrated lecture, El Dorado, or the Gilded Land.  Mr. Miller displayed the same eloquence that he has done in previous speeches and made a decided hit with the audience.


The Daily Register, Marietta, Ohio
Hon. C. C. Miller delivered a masterly address on Napoleon, the Man of Destiny.  To say that his address was listened to attentively and was highly appreciated by all would be putting it mildly.  Mr. Miller is one of the most fluent speakers ever heard in this city.

Audience of Eleven Hundred, Altoona, Pa.

I wish to express to you my own pleasure and profit, as well as that of a large audience, in your address, The Young Man of the Twentieth Century.  In years past we have had the greatest difficulty in getting more than fifty patrons to attend, but your lecture brought out more than eleven hundred people, and we consider it one of the most successful of our entire course.

H. J. WIGHTMAN, Supt. Department of Education.


Newcomerstown (O.) News
The lecture delivered by Dr. C. C. Miller of Lima, at the opera house last Friday evening, was one of the best literary treats of the season.  Dr. Miller brings to his task excellent abilities which show the result of refined training and liberal culture.  In the presentation of his popular subject, Napoleon, the Man of Destiny, he held the attention and interest of the audience from the beginning to the close and showed the gift of the orator.


Republican Gazette, Lima Ohio
Dr. Miller always pleases, always instructs.


Sturgis (Mich,) Democrat
The address of President C. C. Miller was among the best ever delivered here.


Bowling Green Sentinel
The eloquence of Prof. Miller drew to him the strongest regards of the audience, as was evidenced by the perfect attention given during the hour.


Hamilton (O.) Daily Republican
Supt. C. C. Miller, last evening before a large and appreciative audience in the Opera House, delivered a masterly lecture on Alexander Hamilton.  The lecture was undoubtedly one of the best ever delivered before a Hamilton audience.

From Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus

I had the privilege of hearing President Charles C. Miller, of Lima, Ohio, at the Miami Valley Chautauqua, at Franklin, Ohio, last summer.  I was more than pleased with his lecture.  It was crowded with good sense and highly interesting.  President Miller has reaped a golden harvest from a large field of experience as one of the most foremost teachers of the middle west.  This harvest is so presented as to give him a high rank as a lecturer.


Times-Democrat, Lima, Ohio
The audience which greeted Dr. C. C. Miller last evening was large and appreciative, composed of the citizens of Lima, his home city.  It was a masterly address.  Mr. Miller is a clear, logical and eloquent speaker.  His addresses are always filled with an abundance of wit, and this one was no exception.  Facts in the great life of Alexander Hamilton, not found in the ordinary history, were brought out, and marshalled in brilliant array.  The lecture was most highly commended by all who heard it.



The Democrat, Pomeroy
A crowded house and a charming lecture.

Before Miami Valley Chautauqua


Dr. C. C. Miller's address, The Young Man of the Twentieth Century, was a masterpiece.  Dr. Gunsaulus, who was in the audience, gave the speaker the closest attention throughout, and complimented him highly.—
Dayton (O.) Journal.


Fremont (O.) Daily News
Dr. Miller then took the platform and for but too brief a time held the thoughts and souls of every person within hearing.  It is impossible to say too much in praise of Mr. Miller, for he has shown wherever he has lectured that he is an educated, cultured, scholarly man; a speaker of great ability, a citizen of patriotic impulse, willing and ready to work effectively for the nation's welfare; a man who has always by valuable public service, earned the regard and love of all who hear him.


Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph
The lecture El Dorado, or the Gilded Land, by Hon. C. C. Miller, of Lima, Ohio, before the Institute last night, which was held in Chestnut Street Hall, was one of the best and most inspiring lectures that has been given before the Institute.  A picture of the sunshine and heroism of life, full of the bright and good.  The lecturer showed that the real El Dorado of our lives comes from earnest, honest effort, and the sunshine of life comes from our willingness to aid others and benefit mankind.  The attendauce was the largest of the season, the house being crowded from pit to dome.


The London Times
President Miller's address on The Value of Time was a masterful piece of work.


The News, Harrisburg, Pa.
A large crowd greeted Hon. C. C. Miller, of Ohio, last evening in Chestnut Street Hall, where he delivered his famous and interesting lecture, El Dorado, or the Gilded Land.  Mr. Miller as a lecturer is without doubt one of the best before the public to-day.


Lancaster Daily Eagle
The evening lecture by Hon. C. C. Miller on Napoleon, the Man of Destiny, was attended by a large and intelligent audience.  From the beginning Mr. Miller had the closest attention of his hearers, and held it for an hour and a half.  His grace and eloquence place him in the front rank with our most popular lecturers of to-day.

Boston, Mass.

Hon. Charles C. Miller's lecture upon Alexander Hamilton, recently delivered before the Hamilton Club, Boston, was listened to by all with great pleasure and profit.  Personally I felt it a privilege to enjoy again this vivid portrayal of the great statesman's life, character and work, which, under the lecturer's masterly treatment, had so impressed me on a previous occasion at the Summer Normal Institute, Martha's Vineyard.  The lecture is a treat; interesting, instructive and inspiring.

J. D. PLUMB, Chairman Ex. Com. Hamilton Club.



FOR SUNDAY MEETINGS
The demand for Dr. Miller's Sunday lectures to men is constantly increasing.  He has had a wide experience, and great usefulness in this line of work.



Subjects

The Power of Sympathy
Heart-Power in Teaching
The Value of Time
The Age of Young Men


Hamilton (O.) Daily Democrat
Dr. Miller is a fine speaker.  He held the closest attention of his auditors throughout the address.  A deep religious spirit, and a wide experience as an educator fits him well to discuss these important elements in the life of a young man.


Xenia Daily Gazette
Dr. Miller, the speaker of the evening at the Y. M. C. A. banquet, is one of the foremost educators of the State, and is a most eloquent, clear and forceful speaker.


Springfield (O.) Daily News
President C. C. Miller delivered an able address before an audience of eight hundred men at the Y. M. C. A. men's meeting Sunday afternoon on The Twentieth Century Man.



Dayton Ohio
In voice, spirit, training and message, Dr. C. C. Miller is admirably suited for the platform of our associations.  He is always wanted again.  His addresses build manhood.

H. A. WILBUR, Gen'l Sec'y Y. M. C. A.




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