The interest which is taken in the classes in elocution is a good sign of the importance which men are assigning to correctness in speech and nicety in enunciation. Under the tuition of the present instructor, time and attention is devoted to the requirements of every day conversation, and not to those accomplishments which are justly termed theatrical and which are of value only to those who are to make the stage or public speaking their vocation. The competition for the prize speaking gives every indication of being better than it was last May. We hope that the present prospect will be borne out fully by the result.
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