COPELAND AND ROBINSON LEAD RECORDING SERIES

Phonograph records have been used to record the voices of students in public speaking and in the theological school. It was revealed yesterday by Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking. Professor Packard declared that any student in the University could have a record made of his voice in Holden Chapel on payment of a small laboratory fee.

In connection with the work he is doing in public speaking. Professor Harvard is starting a series of phonograph records which may revolutionize all present methods of teaching in these courses. Through the Harvard University Press victrola records have already been made by Charles Townsend Copeland '32, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oxatory, Emeritus, and by Fred Norris Robinson '91, Professor of English. These records are now on sale, and include readings from chapters six and seven at the "Book of Revelation," by Professor Copeland, and part of Chaucer's. The denner's Tale" and "The Debate of the Body and the Soul" by Professor Robinson.

It is hoped that the collection will gradually be increased, and that the original records will be stored in the archives of Widener as permanent examples of good literature. Professor Packard hopes for a special room in every library where these records can be stored, and played, for which room he has inverse the name "vocarium."

Two other records have been completed but are not yet on sale. Bliss Percey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, has recorded a description of Emerson's last days in Concord, taken from his latest book and also a part of Thackeray's "Born Diamond." T. S. Eliot '09, former Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has recorded readings from his own poems, "Gertion" and "Hollow Men."