Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Speakers' Club held an open meeting last night in the Lecture Room of Fogg Art Museum for the purpose of discussing "Cultivation in Speech". Professor C. N. Greenough, the first speaker, discussed "The Relation of Oral to Written Composition". He showed that lack of cultivation in speech is usually the cause of poor spelling, a small vocabulary, and monotony in style. Professor W. A. Neilson, speaking on "The Relation of Oral Reading to the Study of English Literature", emphasized the point that poetry can only be truly appreciated when read aloud well. Professor J. H. Ropes spoke on "Good Speech...
...charge of University Extension, will speak on "Good Speech in General Education"; Professor W. A. Neilson, of the English department, on "The Relation of Oral Reading to the Study of English Literature"; and Assistant Professor C. N. Greenough, also of the English department, on "The Relation of Oral to Written Composition...
Another step toward increasing the facilities for public speaking is found in the oral work which is being added to the regular written class-work in English A this year. But perhaps the most interesting development is that of the Speakers' Club...
...play is very successful comedy, the leisureliness of the action being relieved and even concealed by the deftness of the dialogue. The second act is melodramatic in the better sense. The interest shifts from Blakely, Sr., to Blakely, Jr., and cleverly devised situations replace to a large extent cleverly written lines. The third act is more or less conventional the threads of the story are straightened at last and there is the usual long-postponed embrace as the curtain falls...
...Fogg Lecture Room next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Under the general subject, "Cultivation of Speech in General Education," Professor Neilson will speak on "The Relation of Oral reading to the Study of English Literature," and Professor C. n. Greenough will speak on "The Relation of Oral to Written Composition...