SAMUEL SILAS CURRY

Curry, Samuel Silas, president of the School of Expression, born at Chatata, Tennessee, 1847; son of James Campbell Curry. He was graduated from Grant University in 1872, and afterward studied at Boston University, receiving the degrees of A.M. and B.D. in 1875 and of Ph.D. in 1879. He specialized in rhetorical and oratorical studies and studied elocution, expression, etc., under more than forty of the foremost teachers in Europe and America. He was professor of oratory at Boston University from 1879 to 1888, has been acting professor of elocution at Newton Theological Seminary since 1884, and also instructor in elocution at Harvard College, from 1891 to 1894, Harvard Divinity School from 1896 to 1902, the Divinity School at Yale from 1892 to 1902, and he founded and has from the first been president of the School of Expression. Dr. Curry is also author of "Province of Expression", "Lessons in Vocal Expression", "Imagination and Dramatic Instinct'', "Vocal and Literary Interpretation of the Bible", "Foundations of Expression" "Browning and the Dramatic Monologue", "Mind and Voice", "Spoken English"; editor "Classics for Vocal Expression", "Little Classics for Oral English." Home: 60 Bay State Rd., Boston, Mass.; office: 301 Pierce Bldg., Boston, Mass.

Submitted by Deborah Crowell