The course of study in English 2 embraces a number of Shakespeare's plays. In recitation, a student reads aloud a certain amount which is then commented on by the instructor. In a course like this, when some of the finest dramatic and poetic passages in English literature are met with, we should naturally expect some attempt at elocution, or, at least, some interest in trying to read well. But the fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would be of considerable advantage to the interest of the course if some means could be taken, during this second half-year, to improve the standard of the reading and not allow the many fine selections to be so mutilated in their delivery as they have been.
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