Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26

can always secure position over one
less expert. Many of the positions to
be filled by the Civil Cervice Commits
sion require the applicant to write a
good hand. Mere legibility is not
sufficient. The writing must contain
more or less of the element of beauty.
Rapidity of execution is also demand
ed. This school enables the student
to acquire a style which shall possess
the three essentials of commercial
writing, ,legibility, neatness and speed.
Those who wish to acquire special
skill in the use of the pen may take a
course in Ornamental Penmanship,
which includes Flourishing. Designing,
Pen Drawing, Pen Lettering, Engross-
ing, Stippling, Automatic Shading,
Card Writing, India Ink Decoration,
etc.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
T In this department the fact is rec
ognized that all voices and all hands
are not constructed after the same
model, and exercises and studies are
selected with reference to the needs of
the individual student.
The best and latest theories of
teaching receive due attention, but
old methods that have proved success
full are not discarded simply because
they are old. In the selection of
pieces, mere novelty is avoided and
the students are encouraged to study
music which will cultivate taste for
that which is noble and refined. Our
relations with some of the leading
music houses of the country enable
us to know what the best writer's in
this line are doing and to place their
work before our students. Instruc-
ton is offered in the following
branches:
| PIANoFORTE. - After a thorough
drill in the elements of music, the
student will take up appropriate
exercises and etudes by leading
writer's for this instrument Pieces
of the proper grade by standard COM
| posers, both classic and modern. will
be an essential feature of the course.
| CABINET ORGAN. - Many musicians
do not fairly appreciate the possibili-
| UlCo vi UulS IL Ido a " luC
field of usefulness, peculiarly its own.
It's moderate cost and it's economy of
! space make it available where more
| pretentious instrument would be out
of the question. 1t is adapted to both
secular and sacred music, and it's
literature is daily increasing.
! SINGING. -Including voice forma-
ton, vocalization, and Interpretation
of songs.
! HARMONY. - Beginning with the
study of chords, their forms. inver-
sions. and progressions, and leading
up'to the analysis of the higher forms
of music.
VIoLIN.-The latest and most i'm
proved methods are employed, and
to the student who practices diligently
satisfaction is guaranteed.
instruction is also given upon the
usual band and orchestra instru-
ments.
NOTE. In this department. lessons
missed for any cause must be made
up before the expiration of the term
to which they belong.
DEPARTMENT OF oRAToRY AND
PHYSICAL CULTURE.
Our School of Oratory aims to
give rounded development, to cult
vate tremendously the body. mind
and soul. 1t aims to give such Physi-
cal Cultivation as shall insure health
and grace and make the body fit
instrument for the revelation of the
soul. 1t aims to produce teachers
worthy of good positions and thor
oughly competent to teach Elocution.
Oratory, Voice Culture, Physical Gull
ture, Rhetoric, English Literature
and Visible Speech.
1t aims to develop readers whose
delivery shall be powerful, graceful
and natural. This school is also de-
signed to afford system of Mental,
Physical and Aesthetic Culture for
those who realize the value of the
graces of expression, but who do not
desire to enter the profession. You
should see the new catalogue of '97
for outline work, in detail, covered by
this department,
GERMAN.
sWho knows not foreign languages,
knows not his own" says Goethe, and
to no other language do these words
apply so forcibly as to the language
of the born Englishman or American.
ANY person who would understand
English Grammar thoroughly should
study an infected language. And of
all the infected languages the Ger
man is, without doubt, the finest and
most valuable. 1t is the finest on ac-
count of its appropriate idioms, and
the most valuable because it is the
medium through which many of the
grandest thoughts in the literature Of
the world, and accounts of important
scientific researches have come down
to us. This branch is taught by the
conversational method, by which
means the student gains working
knowledge of the vocabulary and a
familiarity with the idioms of ordin-
airy conversation.