supply a common lack in modern methods of education, takes its pupils as it finds them, and does for each whatever is necessary to call forth and unfold the innate powers.

Students are made familiar with what master minds have expressed or recorded in literature, painting and sculpture, and are brought into contact with the fullest artistic interpretations of life in all forms of art. Literature is studied as an aspect of expression, and all expression is regarded as primarily centering in the natural languages of voice and body.

All are encouraged to express themselves in many ways, to converse, to tell stories, to read aloud, to write, to speak, to act, to recite, to dramatize good authors, to give monologues, to abridge the masterpieces of fiction, and to give dramatic impersonations.

The purpose of the School is to emphasize the spoken word in education. Some of the aims are:

1. The harmonious development of the individual.

2. The bringing of students into such contact with nature, literature and art as will stimulate spontaneous activity.

3. The awakening of imagination, feeling, and creative power; the stimulation of the student's own ideals, tested in the sphere of expression and directed to practical ends.

4. The development of the student's consciousness of his possibilities and the establishment of confidence in his best instincts.

5. The harmonizing of thought, emotion and will; the co-ordination of all human activities, and the evolution of efficient personality for establishing self-forgetfulness.

6. The tracing of faults of speaking, or of stammering, of stuttering, or of impediments of speech, to their causes and the elimination of these causes by training.

7. The treatment of mannerisms as automatic movements, and their correction by establishing thinking.

8. The development of naturalness and efficiency through selfstudy, sympathetic identification and assimilation.

9. Consciousness of form awakened in one's expression and made a means of interpreting and appreciating literature, art and life.

10. The language instinct is established in nature processes and normal relation of nature to art secured.

11. Literature studied as a “ real interpretation of life,” for the fuller appreciation of the possibilities of human nature and experience.

12. The principles underlying manual and motor training applied to securing the individual's command of voice and body as expressive tools or agents of his being.

13. The modulations of the voice and actions of the body developed by accentuating mental actions through expression.

14. The application of scientific methods to the development of voice, involving the curing of sore throat and the correcting of other defects caused by misuse of the voice by teachers, preachers and speakers.

15. Expressive action of the body and modulations of the voice used scientifically as means of motor training.

16. The art of entertaining as a mode of expression.

17. Culture gained from contact with universal ideals as embodied in art and in literature.

18. Adequate vocal technique. The student is grounded in fundamental principles and is given opportunity for direct practice. 19. The private-home system of caring for students affords right influences in the home life.

20. Public recitals, receptions, and social advantages of the school as a special feature of its life.

Which turns thought, act ——

Conceives, expresses, too.

-Browning.

HISTORY AND ENDOWMENT

ANY attempts have been made to establish on a scientific basis a permanent professional School

MANY

of Speaking. Boston University, at its foundation in 1873, organized as one of its departments a School of Oratory. In 1879 that school was discontinued as a separate department of the University, and Dr. S. S. Curry was chosen to carry on its work in connection with the post-graduate work of the "School of All Sciences." Special classes steadily increased in numbers and interest, until the trustees permitted Dr. Curry, then Snow Professor of Oratory, to organize them into what has grown into the School of Expression. In 1884, with the co-operation of literary men and educators, the School was established as an independent corporation.

The founders aimed to secure the adoption of adequate methods for the development of expression, for the establishment of educational and artistic standards in an organized institution for the study and training of speech.

NEED OF ENDOWMENT

The Corporation is composed of leading citizens and prominent educators in different parts of the country whose names are a sufficient guarantee that funds given to the Institution will be faithfully administered. Chairs or Scholarships will be established, or buildings erected as permanent memorials to donors.

Adequate, endowment and equipment of the School of Expression will further not only the dramatic arts, the improvement of the voices of teachers, and the delivery of speakers, but will be an aid to general education.

WHY THE SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION

SHOULD BE ENDOWED

The unique character of the work. It is doing a work which is not being done in any other institution.

The universal need of such a school.

The fact that the school is international. The last five years it has averaged in all its terms over three hundred students from over forty states and five or six provinces of Canada, from Japan and from other foreign countries. The present year's graduating class numbered fifty, from twenty-nine states and the Province of British Columbia.

The school deserves a permanent endowment on account of the work it has done and is still doing.

It has trained all classes of speakers, teachers, lawyers, lecturers, statesmen and ministers. Missionaries have found here a technique of speaking. It gives professional training to teachers of speaking for universities, colleges, normal and high schools. The demand has exceeded the supply.

It has developed teachers of reading for all the lower grades. It has aided by scientific methods all who have suffered from impediments of speech.

It has removed repressions and constrictions and has developed a higher freedom and culture in all classes of people.

It has found adequate methods for the improvement of the American Voice.

The School doubles the efficiency of speakers and professional

men.

It trains all classes of teachers so that they are able to teach with greater economy of their physical strength, with more pleasure to students and with two-fold efficiency.

Its methods have been supplemented by original investigation of the methods of all ages, in all parts of the world. They have been recognized throughout the whole country as the most advanced.

As every profession needs a professional school, speakers of all kinds (and teachers of speaking) need a professional headquarters where they may secure the most advanced methods.

Money given to the School of Expression will produce greater results and bring greater honor in proportion to the amount given, than contributions to any other institution in the country.

aimer assez les idées qu'on veut faire adopter aux autres.

- Beranger.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

Applicants for admission are required to present two testimonials as to character and qualification from persons of recognized standing.

Education and training equivalent to the requirements for a high school diploma are required for classification as a regular student.

Professional Courses are arranged for graduates of Colleges and Professional Schools. Applicants for these courses, in addition to the general requirements, must show ability in the particular form of Expression chosen for specialization.

Deficiencies must be made up before graduation.

Entering, or regular Junior Class, is limited to thirty members.

Students should early advise with the authorities of the School of Expression, even while attending high school, college or university. Valuable advice may be given, through Home Study and Morning League work, regarding their electives which will be helpful to them in their future work.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVANCED STANDING

Applicants for admission to "Advanced Standing (Second Year Special Class) must meet the general requirements, present a certificate (blank furnished on application) from former teacher of expression, showing subjects and number of hours taken in class and in private, with a minimum of four hundred hours (or three summer terms in the School of Expression), with entrance examinations on same and before graduation must