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Title: Annual catalogue of the officers and students of the Fort Hays Auxiliary State Normal School : first year--1902-'03
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fort Hays State Normal School
Subjects: Fort Hays State Normal School Teachers colleges
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ctures. 2. Atmosphere. 3. Tone color. 4. Rhythm. The poetic foot. 5. Movement or rate. 6. Personation. Text, Marslands Interpretive Reading. PUBLIC SPEAKING. rse I. Oration.—Two orations or their equivalent required of allstudents finishing the diploma course. It is expected that this requirementwill be completed during the third year of the four- rse. So far as time permits, a careful study is made of the persona.::each student, and the training is adapted to individual needs. Freqnentconferences with the instructor disclose the development of the oration andthe further needs of the student. Attention is called to the nature of oratory, and to those peculiarities ofstructure and style that distinguish it from other forms of discourse. Inthe process of the discourse there will be conciliation, instruction, conviction,persuasion, and these are all employed in order that the hearer may bemoved to decision and to action. The art should not be an end in itself! 30 Western Normal School.
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Hays, Kansas. 31 The prospective speaker is urged to become acquainted with his ownheart-life, and to fina therein incentives to speech; to discover tho extentand content of his own store of observation and experiences, and from thisto draw much of the material for the oration. Originality is a constituentelement in all true eloquence. It is necessary to keep in view the audience to be addressed and the endsought, and to let these determine choice of facts and turn of phrase. For the purpose of securing exactness of statement, much writing mustbe done, but care should be taken lest the larger thought of to-day be lim-ited by the forms of yesterday. Emphasis is laid upon the following principles: Vision—see clearly;vigor—feel strongly; sincerity—speak truly; force—speak simply; interest—speak from yourself. The whole being must serve. Course II. Extemporaneous Speaking. —(Beginning.) Lectures deal-ing with nature and various methods of speech; advantages and disadvan-tages

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