lation of Vocal Expression to literature and the relation of all the arts to each other is carefully studied and illustrated. Peculiarities of literary art are studied from a broad and philosophic point of view. Principles of rhetoric and English composition are not neglected.

METHODS OF TEACHING READING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Courses of graded and progressive steps with principles of training are given to public school teachers. Programs of exercises for the voice and practical problems adapted to the needs of pupils of the primary, grammar, and high school grades are arranged for teachers. Teachers also receive training in the control of their own voices.

[Special classes are provided for those unable to take a full course.]

PREACHING

The development of the preacher is the most peculiar and difficult problem of education. Mere knowledge will not do the work. The whole nature must be developed. Mind, voice, and body must be thoroughly trained and brought into unity; imagination and feeling must be awakened and all the spiritual faculties and powers realized. The present failure in the development of the preacher is due to the substitution of mere scholarship for individual training, personal culture, and spiritual realization.

Preachers receive training of the voice and body in order to secure economy of force and self-control. The preacher is given control of the instruments of Expression. He is also given command of conversational melody and a vocabulary of delivery.

At the same time steps are taken to unfold the mental, emotional, and spiritual powers of the preacher. Courses are given for the development of the imagination and dramatic instinct, and to secure control of feeling. Faults peculiar to clergymen are corrected by eradicating their Special studies are given in the interpretation of the Bible and the reading of hymns.

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Special classes and work are arranged for preachers in both the summer and winter terms. All preachers are invited to correspond with the School and to recognize themselves as agents not only of the efforts to establish a School of Preaching but to advance the School in its other departments.

The Trustees hope, in the near future, to secure sufficient aid to establish a regular School of Preaching, founded on an entirely different basis from anything now taught in any Divinity School.

The President of the School has trained three thousand preachers. The reception accorded his " Vocal Interpretation of the Bible," and his

the demand for such an institution.

The following are among the courses that have been especially arranged:

I. THE VOICE.

COURSES

2. MELODY IN PREACHING.

3. VOCAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE. 4. SPEAKING.

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[See special circular.]

LITERARY STUDENTS AND DRAMATIC OR OTHER WRITERS The courses in the School of Expression have been the means of unfolding the creative energies and of developing individuality of style of able writers. Dramatic authors have taken the courses on Stage Business, Dramatization, and Characterization as an aid in realizing the peculiar nature of the play. Style in writing is developed by offering a stimulus to thinking. The laws of writing are perceived from a study of the universal principles of art, and are not allowed to degenerate into mere mechanical rules.

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Special Departments

N addition to the preceding courses prescribed for graduation with different diplomas, special work in class and with individuals is arranged for those who have peculiar difficulties, or who are hindered from taking diploma courses. Work in any subject, when needed, is given by the teachers to suit, so far as possible, the convenience of students. Many persons now filling high positions were thus started in their preparation by the School.

I. PREPARATORY COURSES

Preparatory Courses, to make up deficiencies, either for Advanced Standing or for regular requirements:

1. All summer work is preparatory to and counts toward regular diploma courses. (See Summer Circular.)

2. Special September Preparatory Term opens the first Tuesday in September. (See Summer Circular.)

3. Three hours on Saturday for students and teachers occupied during the week.

4. Special evening courses.
5. Preparatory Home Studies.

(See Evening Circular.)

(See Home Study Circular.)

Examination and diagnosis of cases requiring specific courses in motor training. (Voice and Body.)

STAMMERING, IMPEDIMENTS OF SPEECH, DEFECTIVES,
PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

caused by misuse of voice, as

and

MINISTERIAL SORE THROAT

LOSS OF VOICE

by teachers and speakers.

Specially arranged courses of training for each individual case.

III. TEACHERS OF THE DEAF

Courses in harmonic and vocal training on the relation of articulation to voice and thinking, with selected programs of exercises for the voice of deaf mutes.

IV. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND OTHERS Elective courses, Saturday morning, afternoon, and evenings.

V. CHILDREN'S CLASSES

On Saturday afternoon. The work includes vocal training, reading and recitation, simple harmonic gymnastics, with exercises for promoting health, harmony, and grace.

VI. PHYSICAL TRAINING

Aside from the harmonic training of the regular diploma courses, Normal Courses are arranged for those preparing to become teachers of gymnastics; also practical courses in the gymnasium for special students who wish systematic exercises. (See "Organic Gymnastic" circular.)

VII. EVENING CLASSES

Comprehensive courses in Vocal Training, Harmonic Gymnastics, Vocal Expression, Reading, Speaking, and Dramatic Art. (See Special Circular.)

The summer terms and courses of the School are unique, thoroughly organized, practical and progressive. They furnish unusual opportunities for the earnest student who finds it necessary to economize time.

Both beginning and advanced courses are given in these terms.

The courses are arranged so as to take up different phases of the work each term, and thus, by concentrating the attention in sequence for a short term upon one certain phase of the subject at a time, we are enabled, between the first of July and the first of October to prepare for "Advanced Standing" in October. Students entering on "Advanced Standing" can graduate General Culture Diploma in one School year.

Three separate summer terms also prepare for admission on vanced Standing."

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Only full regular work of a summer term counts toward a Diploma course in the School. (See Special Circular.)

IX. ELECTIVE COURSES

Single courses and groups of subjects are given in Vocal Training, Physical Training, Development of the Grace of the Body, Vocal Expression, Literature, English, General Work for Health and Physical Training, Spiritual Aspirations of Expression, and similar subjects. In every case, elective courses are prescribed according to needs, occupations, and circumstances.

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Advice to Applicants

TUDENTS intending to enter the School should apply for admission early, that they may be advised regarding preparation for entrance.

Important courses have been arranged to aid students in preparation. Applicants are advised to register in these Home Study courses even when under a preparatory teacher.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

Applicants for admission to the School are requested to present testimonials as to character, from pastor or other person of recognized standing. Applicants for the regular Diploma courses should be graduates of a high school or possess an equivalent amount of education and culture. Students with less than a high school preparation will be examined, and if necessary, entrance conditions required to be made up before graduation from the School of Expression.

Applicants for the Professional courses must in addition show ability in the particular form of Expression they choose for specialization.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVANCED STANDING

Applicants for admission to the Special Middle Year courses must have mastered not only the general requirements for admission, and present certificates from former teachers stating the subjects studied and the number of hours taken in class and in private, but must also be examined in the leading studies of the first year. When the artistic interpretation and knowledge of the student is sufficient and the examinations satisfactory, he will be received into the advanced classes with such conditions as the examiner shall deem necessary. Such students must attend twenty-four hours a week, and pay a fee of fifty dollars. All students, before graduating, are required to pass in the fundamental work of the first year, as well as in advanced courses.

College graduates, or those having equivalent attainments, may take the three years' courses in two years. Such students are also required to take twenty-four hours a week of class work and to pass all the examinations in the first, second, and third year groups of courses.