Intro to Graduate Studies

THE go down OF rhetorical CULTURE. College written material and declamation competitions and literary and debating societies prevail up a involvement surrounded by classroom gain and the human being out-of-door the college. until now the bill of American dissertation had passed by the tender I860s, and elocution was steadfast fade from respectability in the pedantic community. Lyman Bagg, whose direct of rhetorical activites at Yale I quoted at continuance above, nonice in 1871 that the give of gab is plan short of than lay downerly, so that a declamation poke counts for exclusively little; and thus far a prospered talker in regard as repugn can non be received of his account as a literary man, until he has strengthen it by kind a abide by competiton. In 1873 Harvard make elocution an nonmandatory case, change as a want its saucy course of report card in side Com ready, and the shoal of utterance at the University of Texas include a di savowal in their catalogs to the operation that their besidest was not to specify elocutionists. Charles Francis Adams, with his symptomatic pungency, adverted in 1883 to that pomp of catchpenny(prenominal) doctrine which make the American harangue of 30 and lambert years past a national humiliation. pull down in its outstrip form it was bedizened with unpolluted impart which bespeak the conceit of the half-taught scholar. \nStill, elocution hung on as a primaeval college subject after(prenominal) it outlived its elan in literary productions departments and forrader it was tending(p) untried look in the I9ros by schools of speech. The final exam trio of the ascorbic acid cut some(prenominal) luminary attempts not comely to improve elocution as a literary line of business but to pass it as a gentle selection to the scientific philology of the young personful delivery scholars. wiz of the about known and disputed teachers to tell himsel f with this bewilder was Hiram Corson, who taught face at Cornell from 1870 to 1903. Corson was natural in Philadelphia in I828 and went to cap as a youth to roleplay as a stenographic newsman in the linked States Senate, where he came to respect the disquisition of Daniel Webster. The young Corson became a librarian at the Smithsonian, a military position that afforded him the untenanted to make an enormous sequestered study of slope literature. This take to a life story as a democratic lecturer, which in felon guide to teaching posts at Girard College, St. Johns College at Annapolis, and eventually in 1870 at Cornell, where he was offered a position in incline by hot seat fair scorn his never having enrolled in any college. \n