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CHARTER OF THE SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION

No. 3402.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Be it known That whereas Eustace C. Fitz, Charles Fairchild, J. W. Dickinson, Dana Estes, W. B. Closson, Alexander H. Rice, Joseph T. Duryea, Willis P. Odell, S. S. Curry, Edmund H. Bennett, and J. W. Churchill have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION, for the purpose of establishing and endowing a School for training the voice, body, and mind in all forms of Expression; furnishing special training for teachers, readers, speakers and others; developing the artistic nature; correcting stammering and impediments of speech; giving diplomas or certificates to those completing courses of work; fostering and elevating all departments of the art of Expression, and have complied with the provisions of the Statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer, Clerk and Trustees with powers of Directors of Said Corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office;

Now, Therefore, I, HENRY B. PIERCE, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that said E. C. Fitz, C. Fairchild, J. W. Dickinson, D. Estes, W. B. Closson, A. H. Rice, J. T. Duryea, W. P. Odell, S. S. Curry, E. H. Bennett, and J. W. Churchill, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as and are hereby made an existing corporation under the name of the SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION, with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions which by law appertain thereto.

Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed this third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

HENRY B. PIERCE,

TRUSTEES AND CORPORATION

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, LL.D., Sc.D., Chancellor, Washington, D. C. S. S. CURRY, Ph.D., Litt.D., President, 301 Pierce Building, Boston

THE HON. NATHANIEL J. RUST, Treasurer,

488 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston W. H. WALKER, LL.B., Clerk, State Street, Boston

The Rev. George W. Shinn, D.D., 1242 W. 4th Street, Williamsport, Pa.

The Hon. Arthur P. Rugg, LL.B., Justice Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester, Mass.

The Rev. Dillon Bronson, Ph.D., 2 Park Street, Brookline

Albert S. Bard, LL.B., 25 Broad Street, New York

The Rev. W. G. Jones, New York Building, Seattle, Washington
The Rev. Shailer Mathews, D.D., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Edward M. Lewis, M.A., Professor of Public Speaking, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

Kent E. Keller, Esq., 512 Liggett Building, St. Louis, Mo.

The Rev. George Landor Perin, D.D., Pastor Beacon Universalist Church, Brookline, Mass.

The Rev. Willis P. Odell, Ph.D., D.D., Pastor, Germantown, Pa.

The Hon. John L. Bates, 1045 Tremont Building, Boston

The Rev. Charles H. Strong, A.M., Rector St. John's Church, Savannah, Ga.

The Rev. J. W. Bashford, D.D., LL.D., Shanghai, China

Frank W. Hunt, Esq., 122 Lincoln Street, Boston

The Rev. Davis W. Clark, D.D., 220 West 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The Hon. Ell Torrance, 2900 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. The Rev. E. P. Tuller, D.D., Pastor Brighton Avenue Baptist Church, Allston, Mass.

The Rev. Charles A. Eaton, D.D., Pastor Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, Ohio

Charles E. Allen, LL.B., 6 Beacon Street, Boston

Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr., Esq., 53 State Street, Boston

John J. Enneking, Esq., 12 Webster Square, Hyde Park, Mass.

The Rev. Samuel L. Loomis, D.D., Pastor Union Church, Boston

A. E. Winship, A.M., Editor "Journal of Education," Boston

Nathan E. Wood, D.D., Newton Centre

William B. Closson, Esq., Magnolia, Mass.

The Rev. J. Stanley Durkee, Ph.D., Pastor First Free Baptist Church, Roxbury, Mass. (Boston)

Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, 7 Otis Place, Boston

Mrs. Lucy Thatcher Bourne, 2163 East 40th Street, S.W., Cleveland,
Ohio

Mrs. Fay Witte Ball, 172 Rutledge Avenue, Charleston, S. C.
Miss Helen Collamore, 317 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Joseph M. Leveque, Esq., Editor “Harlequin," New Orleans, La.
The Rev. John M. Barker, D.D., Professor of Sociology, Boston Uni-
versity

The Rev. Professor Charles P. Grannan, D.D., Professor Catholic University, Washington, D. C.

The Rev. A. Lee Holmes, A.M., Rock Island, Quebec

The Rev. Thomas A. Smoot, A.B., Wilmington, N. C.

J. W. Foss, M.D., Phoenix, Ariz.

J. B. Hugg, A.B., LL.B., 482_Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Rev. Charles A. Reese, D.D., Milton, N. H.

The Rev. F. D. Crawley, A.M., Moulmein, Burmah, India

The Rev. William F. Bade, Ph.D., Pacific Theo. Sem., Berkeley, Cal.

The Rev. Masukichi Matsumoto, Kwansei Gakiun, Kobe, Japan

The Rev. Robert J. Wilson, M.A., Vancouver, B. C.

The Rev. Virgil E. Rorer, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. Albert B. Shields, B.D., St. Luke's Home, San Francisco, Cal.

Malcolm Green, Esq., 45 Kilby Street, Boston

William Dean Howells

BOARD OF ADVISERS

The Rev. George A. Gordon, D.D.
Thomas Allen

George L. Osgood

John Townsend Trowbridge
William Winter

The Rev. W. H. P. Faunce, D.D.
S. W. Langmaid, M.D.

James J. Putnam, M.D.

TEACHERS

Samuel Silas Curry, Ph.D., Litt.D., 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., 18914; 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," "Poet Laureate Idyls," "The Presumption of Sex," "A Dictionary of American Authors," "The Archbishop's Unguarded Moment"; 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.

Caroline Angeline Hardwicke

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

Binney Gunnison, A.B.

A.B., Harvard Univ., 1886; School of Expression: Teacher's Diploma, 1898, Philosophic Diploma, 1907; Instructor in Elocution,

Florence Emilie Lutz

Teacher's Diploma, School of Expression, 1907; Philosophic Diploma, 1908.

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; Gilbert's School of Dancing, 1905.

Alfred Hennequin, Ph.D.

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.

William H. Greaves, A.M.

A.B., Carleton Coll., Northfield, Minn., 1904; A.M., Boston University, 1909; Teacher's Diploma, School of Expression, 1909.

Edith Winifred Moses

Teacher's Diploma, School of Expression, 1905; Philosophic Diploma, 1908.

Edward Abner Thompson

Public Speaker's Diploma, School of Expression, 1904.

Fraulein Hermine Stüven

Instructor in German, Wellesley College.

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, fifteen years.

Frank B. Sanborn, of Concord

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

Charles Malloy

Personal friend of Emerson; Lecturer on Emerson and Browning, and various spiritual phases of poetry, for many years at Greenacre

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