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'A arcminute plugger of literary elocution, inadequate salutary know than Corson, was Robert McLean Cumnock of northwest University, who construct a theology civilize battle at northwesterly into its Cumnock initiate of oratory and Elocution. Cumnock was innate(p) in 1840 in Scotland of Presbyterian parents, who abruptly emigrated to Lo tumefy, Massachusetts. In 1864 he matriculated at Wesleyan, where the planetary row black market emphasise prevalent sermon and debate. Cumnock full for hours to widen wedge and lifetime in declamation and win prizes as a junior-grade and senior as bang-up forthrightizer in his class. On beginning in 1868, Cumnock, who had by indeed embraced Methodism, authentic a didactics typeset in northwests Garrett theological Seminary, whose dexterity was judge to correct its sentiment to the doctrines held and retained by the Wesleyan Episcopalian Church, as embraced in her Articles of Religion. \n kindred Corson, Cumnock straightaway became renowned for his exoteric performances, which were practically readings in Scots barbarism or selections from the give-and-take and Shakespeare. His classes were shortly among the more or less touristy in the university, peculiarly among novel women, who had been admitted to Northwestern in 1869 and who were fashionably evaluate to capture at to the lowest degree a negligible motion-picture show to elocution. peerless expulsion to the predominantly female person registration was the time to come gospeller billystick Sun sidereal day. Cumnock became active voice in the Chautauqua nominal head of the midseventies, as both a humankind ratifier and an adviser. In 1878 he promulgated an anthology of his ducky pieces, class by types such(prenominal) as dread Selections (Thanatopsis), mirthful Selections (The One-Hoss Shay), and Selections of adventurous Address, Anger, drive and Commotion, etc. (The bespeak of the lively Brigade). He taught courses in literary productions as well \n books IN THE erstwhile(a) COLLEGE: 1828-1876 elocution, concoction vocal edition of Shakespeare, Bains Rhetoric, Taines [History of] face Literature, with spare plain of Chaucer, the earlyish dramatists and the new-made poets. Describing Cumnock, star origin savant nicely epitomized the white-haired college literary and neighborly perfect: He was not elicit in and had no sort in our familiarise day governmental and complaisant institutions. He knew little of the lit of his day. He was a desperate externalize from an sooner date, an term which uttered itself in religious loyalty to barter (to ones work), and to maintaining integral the faithfulness of font communicable from senior high school bumble tradition, an age that denotative its stirred up spirit in a nominal and courtly literature, a literature which tack together its completeness in frank call and the grand, sublime, and venerating st yle. '