S. S. CURRY, Ph. D., Litt. D., President Pierce Building, Copley Square, Boston, Mass. THE SUMMER SESSION OF THE SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION 1921 INCE the opening of our first Summer Term in 1886thirty-five years ago-the School of Expression, of Boston, has grown to be the greatest organized educational movement for the promotion of the arts of speech and the interpretation of literature in all its forms, in the world. The School of Expression was one of the first educational institutions in America to develop the summer term. The seed sown in those early years has grown into a mighty tree, the branches of which extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Students have come to our Summer Terms from every state in the Union, and from every province in Canada. They have come from Mexico, Central America, England, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Russia, Turkey, Siam, China and Japan. Teachers and graduates from nearly all the leading universities and colleges in the United States and Canada have taken our Summer courses. Representatives of all the learned professions and of almost every calling in life have been enrolled in the various Summer Terms of the School of Expression. The Summer Session of 1921 includes eight Summer Terms. Four of these will be held in Boston, one in Asheville, North Carolina, one in Pittsburgh, one in Waxahachie, Texas, and one in Chicago. Each of the Terms will be conducted under the personal direction either of Dr. S. S. Curry, President, or Anna Baright Curry, Dean, assisted by members of the Faculty. All the various Summer Terms are organized in vital relation with the School. Each manifests the same artistic purpose and uses the same methods, but applies the principles to accomplish results from the point of view of the subjects assigned The School of Expression is primarily a school for professional men and women. More than one-half the students attending the Summer Terms are college graduates. But the School has always maintained the "open door" to ambition and to genius wherever found. It offers training and culture to all, and the experience of more than forty years has justified the wisdom of its practice. We offer eighteen consecutive weeks of summer work between the middle of May and the first of October. The work given includes courses in Speaking, Story Telling, Reading, Dramatic Action, Elements of Art in relation to Education, Vocal Interpretation of Literature, Platform Art and Dramatic production. We train the voice and body to be responsive to being, and we teach that impression precedes expression. A diploma of the School of Expression has a unique value which is recognized by educators and other professional men and women, as a guarantee of attainment unexcelled in the particular field which the School occupies. More than ten thousand students have been reached by the School of Expression, and fully half of these through the Summer Sessions. We study literature by the intensive method. That means that we offer you advantages in the study of literature which no university or college offers or is prepared to give. It means that we offer four years' work in Literaturenot in the history of literature or the biography of authors; not in analysis or critical studies of the text; not in linguistic studies or in formal studies of metre-though we do something of all these things; but in the study and interpretation of the works of literature themselves, as works of art. By that we mean that we study a poem, not only intellectually, but imaginatively. We study a play or a story by recreating its spirit through the aid of the imagination, and we test our conception by the only test which Art knows-expression. This is what we mean by the intensive study of literature. The difference is one of method, and is fundamental. Historical and critical methods of study, and the artistic or intensive method of study, are as far apart as the poles. By the one, one learns to know the soul of his friend. By the other, one becomes familiar with his clothes and his family history. The educational product of the critical or academic method of literary study is information; of the intensive or artistic method is culture and personality. We teach Expression and the Interpretation of Literature by the use of methods which we have originated and developed; methods by which the spirit of an exercise or of a literary work is recreated and made alive through the use of the Spoken Word. Through the application of these methods in the training of mind, body and voice, the student arrives not only at a more profound understanding of his subject, but grows in confidence and self-control through the awakening of latent powers and capabilities. This sounds like serious work, and it is. But it is more. It is Recreation. COME TO ONE OF OUR SUMMER TERMS AND HAVE A REAL VACATION. COURSES OFFERED IN THE SUMMER SESSIONS Organization and concentration on selected subjects, and attention to individual needs in class, sections, and individual drill, enable the School to accomplish results in the Summer Terms hitherto not supposed attainable except in long terms. Every regular Summer Term includes courses in the training of the voice, development of the body, vocal interpretation of the best literature, conversation, speaking and other exercises, which lead students to think for themselves and to express thought and experience from the standpoint of the Spoken Word. The exercises and training are practical, and are designed to correct repressions, constrictions and perversions; to develop harmoniously the primary relations of the mind and their natural responses in voice and body; to use expression as a test of the unity or co-ordination of man's mental powers and to secure right use of the voice and body. It will be the aim to study the natural signs of the actions of the mind-such as voice modulations and pantomime-and to discover their necessary relationships to words. Among the courses offered are the following: I. Courses for Preachers, Speakers and Teachers of Speaking.These are given in all the regular Summer Terms and in the Sep II. Courses for Teachers of Expression.-Normal instruction for teachers of Expression and Speaking is usually given in all terms of the Summer Session and students in normal courses have opportunities for the application of principles to needs. III. Courses for Public Readers.-Artistic interpretation of the art of the Spoken Word, based on the scientific methods of the School of Expression; unusual opportunities for appearance in Public Recitals offered to students taking courses in Platform Art. IV. Courses in Dramatic Art.-Courses given both from the point of view of the stage and for general culture; especially studied in the Boston Dramatic Term. V. Courses for Teachers of English.—Spoken English and intensive study of literature given in all the Terms. SPECIAL COURSES Special Courses for Public School Teachers.-These are courses Gymnastic Courses. Given in the Boston Dramatic Term, the Corrective Speech Work.-This work is for stammerers and those Private Lessons are often recommended to students who need, desire or could profit by an unusual amount of individual attention. IMPORTANT Students who are planning to attend any of the Summer Terms of the School of Expression are requested to register at once, and to give full information concerning requirements for boarding accommodations. It is most important that each student be on hand and ready for work at the opening lesson. Regular and prompt attendance is required of all who expect credits. Each hour of instruction in every subject is based on the preceding lesson, and even private lessons cannot wholly compensate for lack of systematic attendance. Necessary directions concerning railroad routes, time of arrival, hotels, etc., will be sent to each applicant on request. For information concerning any of the Terms of the Summer Session, address Anna Baright Curry, Dean, School of Expression, For general information, send for catalogue. BOSTON DRAMATIC TERM May 18 to June 29, 1921 Under the Direction of the Dean The demand of dramatic students for courses based on the fundamental principles of art was met in 1903 by the Summer Dramatic Term. The success of eighteen successive summers has taken this term out of the class of experiments and given it an established and permanent place among the Summer Terms of the School of Expression. The courses are arranged to meet the needs of those who are studying for the stage or to teach dramatic art. Opportunities are offered to secure a practical knowledge of histrionic art in all its forms,-comedy, burlesque, farce, tragedy, pageantry and to receive thorough training in dramatic action together with a mastery of stage business. The term aims to develop power in Expression: first by bringing into consciousness the power of the individual; and second by developing a realization of unity in dramatic action through participation with other dramatic students in scenes and plays. The work is also valuable for teachers and readers who cannot fail to benefit in mental growth and freedom of action through the training offered. The method seeks to awaken dramatic thinking, to develop the imagination and dramatic instinct, and to co-ordinate the training of the intellectual and artistic powers with the training of voice and body, thus securing flexibility and responsiveness to every phase of thought and passion. The training in voice, vocal expresssion and pantomime is direct and comprehensive, and includes much practice in dramatic rehearsal and characterization. A well known New York critic has said: "There is no better dramatic work in the country than that done at the School of Expression." Two courses are offered,-one for advanced students and one for beginners. They include the following subjects: I. The Technique of Dramatic Action. II. Dramatic Modulations. Including dramatic modulations of voice, harmonic and manifestive pantomime, drill in reading lines and in interpreting character. III. Dramatic Interpretation of the Forms of the Drama.—Including comedy, farce, burlesque, melodrama and tragedy, |