Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Channing was a journalist, writer, and editor of the North American Review before his selection as Boylston Professor. He began teaching at Harvard when the written word began to replace oratory as the most prominent means of communication. Moreover, it was also a period when written communication was perceived to be the road of upward social mobility for the poor and the defining characteristic of the elite. Influenced by these developments, Channing emphasized the importance of proper writing skills and well-formed composition in his classes; he also introduced the readings of novelists, poets, and British rhetoricians such as Hugh Blair, George Campbell, and Richard Whately, to his students. After his death in 1856, Channing's "Lectures read to the Seniors in Harvard College" was published.. }
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- catalog description "Channing was a journalist, writer, and editor of the North American Review before his selection as Boylston Professor. He began teaching at Harvard when the written word began to replace oratory as the most prominent means of communication. Moreover, it was also a period when written communication was perceived to be the road of upward social mobility for the poor and the defining characteristic of the elite. Influenced by these developments, Channing emphasized the importance of proper writing skills and well-formed composition in his classes; he also introduced the readings of novelists, poets, and British rhetoricians such as Hugh Blair, George Campbell, and Richard Whately, to his students. After his death in 1856, Channing's "Lectures read to the Seniors in Harvard College" was published.".