OF THE FIRST NATIONAL CONVENTION OF PUBLIC READERS AND TEACHERS OF ELOCUTION HELD AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK, JUNE 27 Official Report PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION 95 Pulpit Oratory. By George R. Phillips, Reading in Public Schools. By Anna Randall-Diehl, . ✓ Recitals, 8, 11, 22, 30, 38, 43, 52, 61, 62, 64, 70, 76, 85, 95, 101, 105, 114, 119 Relation of Elocution to College and University Education, The. By William B. Chamberlain, Report of Committee on Permanent Organization, ✓ Rush System, The. By Thomas C. Trueblood, (6 Discussion, 66 Stammering. Discussion, Steps to the Artistic. By Dr. Luis Baralt. Vocal Culture. By James E. Murdoch. Lily Hollingshead, Discussion, 86 ΙΟΙ 22 30 65 68 Read by Miss I 2 20. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST NATIONAL CONVENTION OF PUBLIC READERS AND TEACHERS OF ELOCUTION, Held at Columbia College, New York, June 27th to July 2d, 1892. X THE MONDAY, JUNE 27th. HE First National Convention of Public Readers and Teachers of Elocution was opened at 2 o'clock p. m., Monday, June 27, with Mr. F. F. Mackay in the chair. Chairman Mackay's Opening Remarks: "Ladies and Gentlemen; Members and Associate Members of the First National Convention of Public Readers and Teachers of Elocution: You are assembled here to-day at the call of your Executive Committee; at the call of the committee selected from the general committee of organization appointed by Mr. Hannibal A. Williams, who was the projector of this movement. You are assembled here for the purpose of considering and studying the science and the art of your profession. Your program embraces a great variety, taking in the tragic, the comic and the emotional; but the outcome of all of it must be earnest and serious work for ourselves and for the benefit of the public. No such undertaking as this should be commenced without first asking the aid and direction of the Supreme Power. Therefore, we have invited to be with us on this occasion one of the most eminent divines, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Potter." Right Rev. Bishop Henry C. Potter's Prayer. "Almighty and beloved Father, our Creator, who art wont to give to us more than we deserve, we come to ask Thee to pour down Thy blessing upon these Thy servants here in Thy presence. Grant unto them Thy heavenly benediction. Thou hast given us the powers with which we are endowed. Thou hast said in Thy holy word, of the revelations of Thy dear son, 'In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God,' teaching us how that incarnate word was Himself and an expression of Thy love and care for man. So Thou hast given to us human speech; a word whereby we can express to one another our own love and brotherhood. |