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- catalog abstract "This collection consists of two letters and seven faculty reports which document the teaching and classroom activities of Edward T. Channing as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and offer a glimpse into Channing's views regarding the instruction of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University from 1825 to 1827. Letter from Edward T. Channing to unknown recipient, 1826 December 17. This letter appears to be a letter of recommendation for Horatio Alger (A.B. 1825). Channing writes that he considers Alger to be a "natural and agreeable speaker" and has "an easy and natural way of his own" in reading. Alger later graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1829 and served as a minister until 1874. Letter from Edward T. Channing to President John T. Kirkland, 1827 January 30. In this letter, Channing writes that he has examined William Nelson Wellford (A.B. 1828) and explains to President Kirkland that Wellford should spend additional time studying composition. 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.".
- catalog alternative "Formerly described as: Records of the Harvard Corporation. Professorship records : Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory.".
- catalog alternative "Harvard Corporation. Professorship papers.".
- catalog contributor b2469733.
- catalog date "1825".
- catalog description "Additional materials on the Boylston Professorship and Edward Tyrrel Channing are held in the Harvard University Archives. These include: 1) A letter from John Quincy Adams, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, to a Committee of Students of the Senior and Junior Classes, 1809 July 21, (UAI 15.971); 2) Records relating to the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1772-1809, (UAI 15.970); 3) The Papers of Edward Tyrrel Channing (HUG 1274.170) which contains an annotated volume of John Pickering's "Vocabulary Peculiar to the United States" (1816); 4) A collection of Channing's essays on rhetoric, composition, criticism, and language in "Lectures read to the Seniors in Harvard College," 1856, (HUC 8819.224); 5) Inaugural Discourse delivered in the Chapel of the University in Cambridge, December 8, 1819 by Edward T. Channing, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, (HUC 4231.19).".
- catalog description "An examination of Channing's teaching of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University can be found in "Edward T. Channing's Teaching of Rhetoric" by Dorothy I. Anderson. "Speech Monographs Research Annual 16, no. 1, (1949) : 69-81.".
- 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.".
- catalog description "Channing, Edward Tyrrel, 1790-1856. Faculty reports and correspondence by Edward Tyrrel Channing, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1825-1827. UAI 15.973, Harvard University Archives.".
- catalog description "Edward Tyrrel Channing (1790-1856) was the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University from 1819 to 1851. Some of the most notable authors of the nineteenth century including Henry Whitney Bellows, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, James Freeman Clarke, James Russell Lowell, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, were trained in the proper use of writing and speaking by Channing. He is also recognized along with Edward Everett as having helped to create the "measured, dignified, carefully enunciated, and well-modulated" diction of the nineteenth century educated New Englander.".
- 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.".
- catalog description "Letter from Edward T. Channing to President John T. Kirkland, 1827 January 30. In this letter, Channing writes that he has examined William Nelson Wellford (A.B. 1828) and explains to President Kirkland that Wellford should spend additional time studying composition.".
- catalog description "Letter from Edward T. Channing to unknown recipient, 1826 December 17. This letter appears to be a letter of recommendation for Horatio Alger (A.B. 1825). Channing writes that he considers Alger to be a "natural and agreeable speaker" and has "an easy and natural way of his own" in reading. Alger later graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1829 and served as a minister until 1874.".
- catalog description "This collection consists of two letters and seven faculty reports which document the teaching and classroom activities of Edward T. Channing as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and offer a glimpse into Channing's views regarding the instruction of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University from 1825 to 1827.".
- catalog extent ".03 cubic feet (1 pamphlet binder)".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. University records. hua".
- catalog issued "1825".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog subject "Channing, Edward Tyrrel, 1790-1856.".
- catalog subject "Eloquence. Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Faculty.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University. Board of Overseers.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University. Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University. Corporation.".
- catalog subject "Oratory Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog title "Faculty reports and correspondence by Edward Tyrrel Channing, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1825-1827.".
- catalog title "Formerly described as: Records of the Harvard Corporation. Professorship records : Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory.".
- catalog type "Correspondence. aat".
- catalog type "Progress reports. aat".
- catalog type "collection".