APPLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS

Institutions desiring teachers for permanent or for temporary positions are requested to make application to the Dean. As it is in the interest of the School that every teacher sent out shall be successful, careful attention will be given to all inquiries from schools and colleges, and a thoughtful selection made. No one is so competent to judge of the possibilities of the student as are his teachers.

On application the School will supply professional artists in platform interpretations of Shakespearean Comedies, Modern Comedies, programs from Dickens and Browning, platform arrangements of Novels, the Habitant, lectures and recitals from English Literature and the Bible. Plays staged and pageants directed. Write for special circulars.

LOCATION

More students from all parts of the world are found in attendance upon the various institutions in Boston than in any other city in the United States. In no place can so many advantages be found in so small a space, advantages so valuable, so accessible, and so reasonable.

The School of Expression is located in the Pierce Building, opposite the Public Library and facing Trinity Church. This corner of the famous Copley Square, the artistic and educational center of Boston, is a fitting home for such an institution. The studios and offices of the School are arranged especially to meet the needs of such an Institution and are attractive centers for the splendidly organized social and artistic life of the students.

Within ten minutes students may reach concerts, lectures, operas, dramatic representations of all kinds, and historic treasures. The Lowell Institute Lectures conducted in the Boston Public Library and comprising more than a dozen courses, and two or three lectures a

week at Harvard University, are free to all, as well as are the various scientific and art museums.

Students coming from New York, or over the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. or Fall River Line, should check their baggage to the Back Bay station and leave the train there. Those from the West, by the B. & A. Road, should check their baggage to the Huntington Avenue station and leave the train there. Those coming to the North Station can inquire of the starter just outside the station, and take an electric car which will bring them direct to Copley Square; or they can take the Subway to Park Street and transfer to any Huntington Avenue car, which will stop in front of the Pierce Building.

The School is easily reached by steam or trolley cars from all parts of the city and suburbs. The Back Bay, Trinity Place, and Huntington Avenue stations are within three minutes' walk, while thirty-nine lines of cars pass the door. The convenience of the Boston electric cars is well known, there being, it is said, one hundred eighty-three different methods of transferring from one extreme of the city to another.

Those expecting to come to the School should make Official Application promptly. Application Card furnished from the Office.

Address communications concerning registration to the Dean, Rooms 301-321, Pierce Building, Copley Square, Boston.

A UNIQUE INSTITUTION

(REPRINT FROM "WAVERLEY MAGAZINE"

MAY, 1909)

"In Copley Square, Boston, stand three buildings, lofty, imposing, inspiring, the influence of which is so far-reaching that it cannot be measured by any human standard - Trinity Church, the Public Library, and the School of Expression in the Pierce Building. It may seem declamatory to mention a school, carried on in rented studios, with institutions having magnificent buildings, the architecture of which is a glory to our city, but those who know this unpretentious School of the Arts of the Spoken Word know that it is exercising an influence, the extent of which can be realized only when compared with recognized standards of power.

"Crime and its cause has ever been a subject of inquiry by philanthropic societies, but only recently has one cause of crime been found to be the condition of student life in crowded cities.

"An earnest inquirer into this subject, after adequate investigation, reports that the School of Expression is better organized, and does more for its students along ethical lines, than any school or college in the city of Boston. In other words, hand in hand with the need for mental and professional development is the need for the development of the personality. In providing for the unfoldment of true artistic personality, the School of Expression, by a wise insight, laid the foundation of personal power in each individual student.

"A movement is afoot to open a Students' Club for Women Students in Boston. Everything this club offers to do for students from the philanthropic point of view, the School of Expression is now doing for its own students from the point of view of personal artistic attainment, in a degree adequate to the needs of its students, thus using the ounce of prevention before the need is made for a pound of cure.

"Perhaps one of the most interesting features of this oversight may be found in the system of private homes for students, instead of dormitories and boarding houses, and what at first students resented as excessive supervision is now appreciated, and parents and students are coming into cordial co-operation with the teachers, in full recognition of their wisdom.

"Another very noticeable feature of student life in the Schoolof Expression is in the recognition of and provision for the exercise of the social instinct under normal conditions. To realize the

beauty and success of the students' social functions one must be privileged to participate in them; mere words are inadequate to express how formality may be handled so as to make ease and freedom not only possible, but inevitable, without loss of dignity to the individual.

"Of course the literary and artistic spirit which pervades all the work of the School of Expression makes practical the high aims of personal culture which characterizes this unique institution.

"A few years ago the announcement in the Catalogue that this school was not established for commercial ends was often sneered at, but the school has made good its claim and is a living example of the fact that ideals of life and art not conformable to commercial standards are not only possible in educational institutions, but necessary to moral sanity.

"From within outward' 'Expression versus exhibition' 'Simplicity and truth rather than effect and tricks,' are the mottoes of the school, and make possible the life of the institution, which is becoming more and more a vital influence for good throughout the length and breadth of the land."

STUDENTS, 1916-1917