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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. 103
17. Phonetics, with especial reference to Modern English. Lect
ures upon the methods of Passy and Roussilot. One hour weekly, to
be announced hereafter. Assistant Professor Strunk.
Courses i, ib,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, are for undergraduates only and
may not be taken as graduate studies.
Courses 14, 15, 16, are primarily graduate studies, but 14 may be
taken by undergraduates.
Courses 7, 8, 9, 13, are primarily undergraduate studies, but may be
taken as minor subjects for advanced degrees.
Courses 1, 3, io, are open to freshmen.
Courses 1, 2 (or ib), or (ib), 3, 9, io, and 12, are required of stu
dents who desire to be recommended by the department to high-
school teacherships of English. For other teacherships, 1, 2 (or ib),
and 9 are required.
Oratory.
Office of the department, White 16a.
The instruction of the department embraces the art of literary inter
pretation and expression, the history of oratory, the writing and deliv
ery of formal orations, and the theory and practice of logical debate.
The essentials of good speaking are taught in five elective courses,
two elementary and three advanced, so planned as to afford a knowl
edge of the principles and opportunity to apply these principles under
the direction of instructors.
The elementary courses are the courses in public speaking. Their
aim is to give the student a practical training in the technique of
speech which will fit him to pursue the advanced courses in extempore
speaking, debate and oratory, and prepare him as a speaker and
thinker for public and professional life.
Those who elect the courses are divided into sections and the class
exercises are conducted by the Professor of Elocution and Oratory,
and an Instructor. The work of the class-room is supplemented and
further applied by the assistants in the department, who meet the
students of the several sections by appointment.
Principles of thought and expression are established inductively,
and applied by the student in connection with selections from orations
and speeches of public men. The system teaches that there can be no
right without speaking right thinking, and that the way to secure
right thinking is to enlarge the powers of observation, memory and
reason. The student is assisted to see and feel the full value of
mental concepts, images and associated ideas and to give expression
to these as nature prompts. Stress is laid on originality in the inter-