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Associate Professor Packard recently revealed the inadequacy of the Harvard speech curriculum before a speech conference, as reported in the April 14th CRIMSON. An examination of our status quo in speech is in order. Five speech courses are available now--three in public speaking, one in dramatic interpretation, and another in oral interpretation, and another in oral interpretation of literature. If we assume these are properly taught, two questions are left. Are there other aspects of speech for which courses are needed? Are there enough classes to handle all the students who need speech training? I believe that both questions...
Serving on the panel with Packard were Lee E. Hunt, Dean of Swarthmore College, and Professor Richard M. Arnold, from Cornell. They were assisted by an official of the New York State Education department...
...conference also contrasted the small speech interest in Eastern colleges with the much larger Western college departments. Of the larger universities, commented Packard, Harvard has the smallest department, with the least number of actual speech courses offered...
...Packard has formulated the reasons for the University's lack of interest in an extensive speech curriculum and plans to present these reasons to the Administration for official comment sometime next week...
...Packard, as Harvard's only speech professor, teaches four courses in the various aspects of public speaking. He has been a regular contributor to the Harvard Vocarium collection, with recordings of student dramatic productions, and of unusual visitors to Boston like Louis Jouvet...