ABSTRACT
[An Editorial Note: In July 1965, Everett Lee Hunt (1890–1984) gave the keynote address at the Bowling Green State University Conference on Rhetoric and the Modern World. He had spent a term teaching a graduate seminar at Cornell University and trying unsuccessfully to save the Department of Speech at that university where he had made such a mark in his early career. For the occasion at the Bowling Green Conference, he chose to reflect both on his recent brief return to university teaching and upon the fifty years of the speech profession. His prepared remarks are printed here with the permission of Theodore Otto Windt, Jr., the executor of his papers, and Mrs. Marjorie Hunt, his widow.]
