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Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, yesterday revealed intentions of the English department to begin soon making voice recordings of each member of the Freshman class. Made possible through the generosity of the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers for the English Department, the work will be carried on in Holden Chapel during the remainder of the academic year...
...such a collection of voices continues to be made annually, its value as material for research in the science of speech will grow inestimably, according to Professor Packard. If records are taken for both Freshman and Senior years, a survey can be made to show whether the so-called "Harvard accent" is actually acquired at the college, or whether it is merely a prep school affectation. The different accents from the middle west, from Boston, from New York, can all be exactly determined and the difference noted. Also the various lads of speaking and current slang expressions will be amusing...
What Professor Packard intends to do is build up in sufferers a confidence in their ability to conquer this difficulty and then let them do the actual work and practice themselves. This can often be done by finding a circumstance under which a person who ordinarily stutters is free from this impediment, and then building up from that...
This very process was used successfully by Professor Packard several years ago when Frederic W. Ilfeld '28, came to him as a Freshman and "could not even tell him his name." It was soon brought out that Ilfeld never stuttered when he was alone, so starting from there he practiced hard every day alone, then gradually began to speak in larger and larger groups, took a public speaking course, and received an "A," and finally became a lecturer at the Medical School. This was the result of three years of daily practice, however, showing that although possible, to task...
...habit, and like all bad habits can be overcome by supplanting it with a good one. Stammering is usually pretty deeply embedded and requires much hard work and will power to conquer, but it is possible and that is why anyone desiring to overcome this handicap should consult Professor Packard as to the best way of going about...