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Samuel Silas Curry, President

A.B., Grant Univ., 1872; B.D., Boston Univ., 1875; A.M., 1878; Ph.D.; 1880; Litt.D., Colby Univ., 1905; Snow Professor of Oratory, Boston Univ., 1879-88; Acting Davis Professor of Elocution, Newton Theological Institution, 1884-; Instr. in Eloc. Harvard Univ., 1891-4; Divinity School of Yale Univ., 1892-1902; Harvard Div. School, 1896-1902; Librarian of Boston Art Club, 1891-1909; grad. of Prof. Monroe and of Dr. Guilmette; pupil of the elder Lamperti and of Steele Mackaye (assistant and successor of Delsarte), and of many others in Europe and America.

Anna Baright Curry, Dean

Grad. Cook's Coll. Inst., 1873; Boston Univ. Sch. of Oratory, 1877; Instructor Boston Univ. Sch. of Oratory, 1877-79; Prin. of Sch. of Eloc. and Expression, 1879-83; Pupil of Prof. Monroe, Dr. Guilmette, and others; Originator of "Impersonations"; "Some Famous American Schools"; Public Reader; Shakespearean Reader; Interpreter of the Higher Forms of Poetry and Literature, such as the Lyric, especially the Psalms, the Epic, and Poetic Drama, and Dramatic Narrative.

Oscar Fay Adams

Author of "Handbook of English Authors,” “Handbook of American Authors,' ," "Story of Jane Austen's Life," "Post Laureate Idyls," "The Presumption of Sex," "A Dictionary of American Authors," "The Archbishop's Unguarded Moment";" Sicut Patribus” and Other Verse; "A Motley Jest"; 66 Famous American Schools" ; Editor of "Through the Year with the Poets," in 12 vols., " Chapters from Jane Austen,” Selections from William Morris," with notes; American Editor of the Henry Irving Edition of Shakespeare; Lecturer on Literature, History, and Architecture, in London and in many cities of this country.

Alfred Hennequin

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A.B., Univ. of France; A.M., Univ. of Mich.; Ph.D., Univ. of Leipsic; courses of study at Oxford, Upsala, and Tübingen Univs.; Author of "The Art of Play-writing,” and of other works on Language, Art, and Literature; Courses of Lectures on the Technique of the Drama and on Dramatic Construction.

Caroline Angeline Hardwicke

Teacher's Diploma, School of Expression, 1899; Philosophic Diploma, School of Expression, 1907.

Binney Gunnison

A.B., Harvard Univ., 1886; School of Expression: Teacher's Diploma, 1898, Philosophic Diploma, 1907; Instructor in Elocution, Andover Theol. Seminary, 1902-7.

Florence Emilie Lutz

1908.

Teacher's Diploma, School of Expression, 1907; Philosophic Diploma,

Eliza Josephine Harwood

Grad. Posse Gymnasium, 1895; Special Post-Grad. Course, 1896; one of the only two pupils of the late Baron Nils Posse that pursued a special third year course, under his personal direction; has studied with twenty-five teachers in different phases of Vocal Training and Gymnastics; The Gilbert Normal School of Dancing, 1905.

Edith Winifred Moses

1908.

Teacher's Diploma, School of Expression, 1905; Philosophic Diploma,

Edward Abner Thompson

A.B., Bowdoin College, 1909; Public Speaker's Diploma, School of Expression, 1904.

Fräulein Hermine Stüven

Instructor in German, Wellesley College.

Ida D. Mason, Matron

Bertha Mons Swenson

Teacher's Diploma, School of Expression, 1908.

William Seymour

Sir Henry Irving Instructor in Dramatic Rehearsal, 1889-1906; Formerly Stage Director of Boston Museum Stock Company and Dramatic Director for Charles Frohman.

Herbert Q. Emery

Dramatic Artist and Manager, sixteen years.

Frank B. Sanborn

Author, Philosopher, and Philanthropist; Author of "Reminiscences of Emerson "; Courses on "Literary Memories of Concord."

Charles Malloy

Lecturer on Emerson and Browning, and various spiritual phases of poetry, for many years at Greenacre and before literary clubs.

MEDICAL ADVISERS

Dr. Eliza T. Ransom, Hotel Puritan, Boston

Dr. Charles L. Pearson, 427 Marlboro Street, Boston
Dr. Eugene E. Everett, 138 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Dr. Herbert D. Boyd, 6 Cumberland Street, Boston

SOME OF THE LECTURERS AND

READERS

SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE SCHOOL

Sir Henry Irving,

Miscellaneous readings.

Alexander Melville Bell,

"Visible Speech."

Right Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, "Nature of Expression."

Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D.,

"Extemporaneous Speaking."

Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton,

Readings from her own poems.

Rev. George W. Shinn, D.D., formerly Rector of Grace Church, Newton, Mass., and former President of the Trustees

of the School,

"Stephen Phillips, his Poems and Plays"; "Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Negro Poet and Novelist ”; “The Miracle Plays.”

Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, Member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since 1897,

"The Poetry of Sidney Lanier"; "Personality, not Mannerisms.” Prof. John Wesley Churchill, D.D.,

Miscellaneous readings.

J. T. Trowbridge,

Recitals from his own works.

Henry N. Hudson, LL.D.,

"Culture and Acquirement"; "Shakespeare."

Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, D.D.,

"The Appreciation of Literature."

Rev. James Henry Wiggin,

"The Plays of James A. Herne " "The Choir Invisible" (James Lane

Allen); Sothern's "Hamlet."

Heloise Edwina Hersey, A.B., Vassar,

"Nineteenth Century Poets," a course of twenty lectures; "The Modern "The Modern Novel and its Relation to the

Drama," a course of five lectures;

Modern Woman."

Mrs. Alice Kent Robertson,

"From "Paola and Francesca" (Stephen Phillips).

John Orth,

Program of Piano Music, with analytical remarks.

Rev. Thomas Van Ness,

Lecture-Talk.

Nathan Haskell Dole, A.B., President of the Bibliophile Society, Six lectures on "Minor Poets of our Time."

Rev. Woodman Bradbury, A.B., President of the Browning Society,

"The Ring and the Book" (Browning).

Edward D. W. Hamilton,

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"Composition in Painting."

Mrs. Mary Steele Mackaye,

"Reminiscences of Delsarte."

Rev. Francis B. Hornbrooke,

Browning's "Pompilia."

Fräulein Hermine Stüven,

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"Goethe," a course of three lectures.

Rev. Alfred A. Wright, D.D.,

"Attending "; " The Fine Art of Seeing Things.”

Mrs. Anna Baright Curry,

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The Story of the Passion "; Homer's "Iliad ";"The Psalms"; fal" (Wagner); Shelby's "Prometheus Unbound (Tennyson); a course of six lecture-readings.

Helen A. Clarke, Editor of "Poet Lore,"

"Browning."

Hezekiah Butterworth,

"Reminiscences of Longfellow."

Idylls of the King"

Ernst Perabo, Pianist,

"Musical Expression," recital.

Charles S. Abbe,

"Actors of the Past," with Illustrative Drawings.

Mrs. Marion Craig Wentworth,

"The Sunken Bell" (Hauptmann).

Mrs. Erving Winslow,

"Peg Woffington."

Henry Wood,

"The Art of Thinking."

John J. Enneking, Artist, Pupil of Bonnat, etc.,

Conferences and talks on art.

Ellen Terry,

Miscellaneous readings.

Hamilton Coleman, former member of Richard Mansfield's Company (now Manager of Princess Theatre, Chicago).

Denis A. McCarthy,

Readings from his poems: "Voices from Erin," etc.

Sam Walter Foss,

Readings from his own poems.

Nixon Waterman,

Readings from his own poems.

Mrs. Marianna F. McCann,

Fairy story program.

Dr. Alfred Hennequin,

"The Place of the Drama among the Fine Arts."

Prof. John Duxbury,

"The Book of Job."

Charles Williams, A.B.,

"Enoch Arden " (Tennyson); "The Crisis" (Churchill).

Wellington A. Putnam,

"Herod" (Stephen Phillips).

Edward Abner Thompson, A.B.,

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