Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stated above is to give instruction in the reading aloud of English prose. The sections are made small in order that as much time as possible may by devoted to individual practice. Before beginning the regular readings, Mr. Cummings proposes to give a few practical exercises in vocal culture the better to prepare the men for the subsequent work. The time during the remainder of the course will be devoted to reading selected passages from the following authors: Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. All men who are desirous of taking this course must...
Prof. Paine is to deliver a series of 25 lectures upon musical history during the coming season and had arranged with vocal and instrumental soloists as well as choruses to assist in giving illustrations of the music of the several periods discussed. These lectures will be delivered at noontime Wednesdays and Saturdays, beginning Nov. 15, and it is the design of Prof. Paine that the subject shall be treated in a way to interest the general public as well as the musical student. The lectures will be delivered at Chickering Hall...
...permitted, if they desire, to acquire the use of the tools of their trade in their college years, when acquisition would be so much easier ? So far as it goes, the instruction offered in elocution is excellent. The one regular course embraces a study of the construction of the vocal organs and of their proper use in speaking and declaiming. The physical defects of an untrained voice are thus corrected, and it is made to become stronger, better modulated, and more resonant. As much attention, too, as possible is paid to delivery. All this, however, is only an attempting...
...ought to join who feels in the least qualified to do so: The Harvard Union, the two religious societies the St. Paul's (Episcopalian) and the Christian Brethren (non-sectarian), the Tennis Association, the Bicycle Club, the Cricket Club and the Canoe Club. Also freshmen possessing any musical or vocal ability ought to present themselves at the appointed time and try for the Glee Club, Pierian Sodality (instrumental club), or brass band; and those whose tastes incline to literary work ought to try for one of the college papers. We hope no member of '88 will fail, either from indifference...
...will be well to remember that some little cheering must be done at the game this afternoon ; undergraduates will accordingly see to it that their vocal strength is not too severely overtaxed at the race...