The same is true of ceremonies like this in which the speakers are most certainly not under oath. Dr. Johnson has his uses, but a more modest authority gives us the more pertinent insight. I refer to the Hall of Fame catcher, Yogi Berra. On the occasion of a tribute early in his major league career in his hometown of …
Ceremonies marking the presentation of a portrait in universities as in courtrooms tend to elicit some old chestnuts, insights by notables. In academic circles, the quotable insights are preferably those of Dr. Samuel Johnson. It was Dr. Johnson who remarked on the apparent discrepancy between an epitaph carved on a certain gentleman's tombstone and the manner in which the gentleman …