placing of a graduate of the School of Expression in the High School of Asheville, as teacher of Oral English. The splendid new High School building it is expected will be opened in February, 1919, and for the summer of 1919 we shall have every opportunity for all kinds of practical work in Public Speaking, Recreation Work, Dramatic Training, Gymnastics and Educational Dancing, with every convenience for such courses. *For full particulars address. ANNA B. CURRY, Dean, 301 Pierce Building, Boston. *Full information concerning the several terms of the Summer Session for 1919 will be issued in the March number of "Expression," 1919. MRS. ELIZA JOSEPHINE HARWOOD (T.D. '00), Head of the Department of Organic Training of the School of Expression will conduct a Summer Course of Physical Training and Dancing for teachers, from May 16 to August 1. course will be progressive, covering four years for Certificate. This Mrs. Harwood had charge of the Department of Physical Training and Dancing in the Summer School of the South, at Knoxville, from 1903 to 1915. Please send for special circulars. Post-War Classes. January 6, 1918. Those of our students who have been in the war or prevented from entering the School on account of war conditions will be organized into a special class. There is a great call for our graduates. We were unable this year to supply the demand for teachers and for various new fields of work now opening; training, for example, for maimed soldiers. There are new courses to help every worker. The School of Expression has a science of training helpful to meet this emergency. SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION, BOSTON A condensed suggestion of Courses offered: a. Normal adjustment, cooperative exercises. II. Logical Thinking. Establishing of Attention in Sequence of Ideas and Response to Thinking in Voice and Action. III. Creative Thinking. a. Sympathetic and Imaginative Thinking. IV. Public Speaking. a. Conversation. b. Extemporaneous Speaking. d. Pulpit Delivery. e. Debate. V. Dramatic Thinking. a. Dramatic Art. b. Platform Art. c. Acting. d. Dramatic Construction. VI. Methods of Teaching. a. Speaking. b. Reading. c. Voice. d. Action. VII. Defective Speech, Stammering, etc. VIII. Organic Physical Training, Educational Dancing. 1. Fundamentals of speech and voice. 2. Coordination of man's purposes with the instinct of language. 3. The establishing of proportion and unity (Language, art). The School of Expression is organized to accomplish these results. Progress, attainment, must be accomplished along the line of a natural method; truth is a light revealing the way and whether the School of Expression is established under the protection of a university or whether it find shelter in a universal foundation be determined not only by the authorities of the School, but by that public which claims as its own the results and attainments of the individual. The School of Expression consists not only of the incorporated institution-but of its graduates; and to the graduates we bring this year a message of hope, of cheer, and of promise of vast opportunities. Credits in the School of Expression. Applicants to be received as members of the Teachers' Diploma courses of the School of Expression must hold a high school diploma or its equivalent, as a minimum entrance requirement; specials received without requirements. The counting of credits for graduation is similar to the system in vogue in most colleges. Usually colleges require from 120 to 130 credits for their A.B. degree. The Teachers' Diploma of the School of Expression requires 145 credits. A credit in the School of Expression requires fifteen points. A point means one hour of class instruction with two or more hours of outside practice or study. The courses of the School of Expression are divided into (1) Training (or technical exercises for self-mastery and the development of higher consciousness); (2) extensive and intensive study of literature; (3) practical skill in creative work in several fields of expression. All work done in the Summer Terms counts toward a diploma for the full amount of credits covered and a certain amount of the work required for any diploma may be taken in the Summer Term. Textbooks of the School of Expression Among other aims the School of Expression was founded to investigate right methods of developing voice and delivery. The work at that time was purely mechanical. Investigations had to be made to establish a right science of voice and place all training in expression upon a scientific foundation. The work achieved in this field is possibly the most successful of all undertaken by the founders of the left for securing endowment, building, even equipment. The world needed the methods, and, according to Dr. Shailer Mathews, few realize the extent of the influence of the School of Expression upon the teaching of speaking throughout the country. Many have been affected indirectly so that they hardly know where these ideas came from. It was the intention to publish these books in logical order, but on account of the demand for textbooks by graduates in different institutions it was necessary to furnish them, if the methods were to be established, in the right way. The following is not a logical order of the books, but the order in which they have been published: Classics For Vocal Expression. This book embodies something of all forms of literature, its variety illustrates every phase of vocal expression, including lyric poems for practice of the voice. Province of Expression. A study of the general problems of expression in education, an outline of presentday methods in the development of expression. Lessons in Vocal Expression. With a special introduction. The first book in the language on the laboratory method for spoken English. This book is not only a study of modulations of the voice but of actions of the mind of which they are a natural sign. Imagination and Dramatic Instinct is a study of faculties of imagination and assimilation, in relation to vocal expression. All expression implies thinking, deliberative attention as well as spontaneous, apperceptive imagination and emotional energies which come from within, and are only awakened by volition. Every act of expression implies these methods. How else could we have artistic spontaneity which is a co-ordination of the deliberative and the impulsive. This is always the deepest problem in the development of expression. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue. This book was intended for public readers. It is a study of Browning, giving his form and enabling anyone to understand his work. It is also a study from the higher literary and artistic point of view of the monologue and its relation Foundations of Expression. For high schools and calleges, giving a comprehensive grasp of the elements of delivery. Vocal and Literary Interpretation of the Bible. This very popular book on the reading of the Bible and the vocal interpretation of literature, is the only book on the subject. Mind and Voice. A Study of Vocal Training in its scientific aspects. Principles of Training has been praised by a University of Wisconsin professor as the best of the books written by Dr. Curry. It is still in manuscript. The Smile was written in response to requests from students. This little book awakens interest in the whole subject of pantomimic expression. It contains, too, the philosophy of life embodied in our work at the School of Expression. The Smile aims also to secure endowment for the School. It has received over two hundred and fifty notices from newspapers. It is a popular book, sold by thousands of students to aid endowment. How to Add Ten Years to Your Life. A popular application of the principles of training. This little book, with pantomimic purposes, contains simple exercises to be used, on rising and retiring. Health and long life are its aim. It is also sold to aid endowment. Spoken English. A popular textbook offering nature and voice reading for children. For public-school teachers in grammar grades. Little Classics. Contains over 150 specific inductive problems adapted to children, with selections enabling teachers to extend practically along the same line of inductive study. Other books are in preparation; every graduate will realize that these books are part of an important movement in education. To the Friends of the School of Expression: The vitality of the School under the most adverse conditions of the war has been a surprise to many. While a number of our students have gone into war work, while the number of men, especially, has been fewer, still |