Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Faculty reports written by Edward Tyrrel Channing, 1825 May 17 – 1827 September 27. In these reports to the President of Harvard College and the Board of Overseers, Channing comments on the poor public speaking skills of incoming freshmen and the need for additional declamation exercises and elocution instructors to meet the increasing number of students entering the fields of law, divinity, and public life. He also discusses his attempts to overcome lackluster recitation exercises by encouraging students to criticize, evaluate, and offer their own views about the speeches recited in class. These reports also include Channing's comments on the progress made by his students in the study of public speaking, the writing of themes and compositions, the correct use of spelling, the use of punctuation, and the recital of the written word. The reports also contain various statistics about Channing's classes such as the number of classes he taught, the number of students in each class, the number of students attending exercises and examinations, the average length of a lecture, and the number of exercises omitted or not completed by his students.. }
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- catalog description "Faculty reports written by Edward Tyrrel Channing, 1825 May 17 – 1827 September 27. In these reports to the President of Harvard College and the Board of Overseers, Channing comments on the poor public speaking skills of incoming freshmen and the need for additional declamation exercises and elocution instructors to meet the increasing number of students entering the fields of law, divinity, and public life. He also discusses his attempts to overcome lackluster recitation exercises by encouraging students to criticize, evaluate, and offer their own views about the speeches recited in class. These reports also include Channing's comments on the progress made by his students in the study of public speaking, the writing of themes and compositions, the correct use of spelling, the use of punctuation, and the recital of the written word. The reports also contain various statistics about Channing's classes such as the number of classes he taught, the number of students in each class, the number of students attending exercises and examinations, the average length of a lecture, and the number of exercises omitted or not completed by his students.".