OBERLIN COLLEGE, August 23, 1867. PROFESSOR A. A. GRIFFITH having been employed by the authorities of the College to instruct the students in elocution and oratory, has just completed a course of five weeks, to the entire satisfaction of students and faculty. He has had very large classes, and awakened the greatest enthusiasm in them all, showing himself the perfect master of his profession. He has wonderful powers to awaken interest, inspire the timid with courage, and develop the capacities of all. He has done a work here which will be last

ing in its effects. The interest awakened in

the classes has not exceeded the interest of

the whole community in Professor Griffith's Public Readings. His power and flexibility of voice, his skill in all manner of expression, are unsurpassed. He leaves us with the esteem and warm regard of all who have come in contact with him.

JOHN M. ELLIS, Prof. of Int. Phil. and Rhetoric, Oberlin Col.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Ind., March 27, 1867.

PROFESSOR A. A. GRIFFITH: Respected Sir,-We, turn aside from our custom, and present you this expression of our regard. Having been associated with you during your extended course of illustrative lectures upon Elocution and Oratory, admired your great ability to render attractive and simple the principles which are at the foundation of vocal power in reading and speaking, witnessed your unflagging zeal, your patience, and above all, your royal models, as presented in your extemporaneous addresses and miscellaneous readings, we are prepared to render judgment, and would herewith offer our unqualified esteem and commendation. May we add, sir, that finding in you the patron and friend of liberal culture, and a type of the polished scholar and orator, we shall expect, from your exertions in our literary institutions, a revival of that Athenian love of oratory and eloquence which has recently been so much neglected, not only in this country, but in Europe.

ST. MARY'S ACADEMY, NOTRE DAME, Ind., March 20, 1867.

PROFESSOR GRIFFITH has given our young ladies of the Academy a series of practical lectures on Elocution, for nearly a month. We take pleasure in declaring our entire satisfaction. There is only one voice among teachers and pupils-all unite to testify that he is a complete master in his profession. As an earnest of the high esteem of his ability and gentlemanly character, we have made an arrangement with him for another series of lectures during the next school year. SISTER M. CHARLES, Supt.

[From an Editorial in the National Intelligencer, Washington, D. C.]

ELOCUTIONARY TRAINING.-In no department of education has there been a greater improvement in the last quarter of a century, perhaps, than in that of reading and oratory. The men and women who were trained in our colleges and seminaries thirty and forty years ago, can bear witness to the meagre and imperfect system which was prevalent even in the best institutions of learning at that period, while in those of a secondary order the instruction was hardly better than no instruction at all.

We have seen many teachers before classes in this branch early and late since our school life, and have observed the gradual improvements which have been introduced in the business, but have, we believe, never seen what impressed us as a better instructor in the study than we saw a few days since on a visit to the large class of young men under a system of drill by Professor Griffith, in connection with the Columbian Law School of this city. We did not, on entering the classroom, think we had time to remain but a few minutes, and yet we were retained by his singularly excellent and entertaining method much more than an hour.

August, 1867.]

INSTRUCTION IN ELOCUTION AND ORATORY. -Professor Griffith is engaged in giving drill exercises to about four hundred of the Col

lege and Preparatory students. As an instructor, he obeys the Divine injunction, to do with all his might whatever his hands find to do. * * * He assumes that all may improve in manner of delivery of speech, by practice, as they may improve in Rhetoric, Mathematics, and Languages, and no stndent ought to be satisfied with present attainment in Elocution and Oratory, any more than they are contented with their present knowledge in any other department of education.

It is the universal opinion of College men who know him, that he occupies the place as an instructor and lecturer upon Elocution and Oratory which Guyot and Agassiz occupy in Geography and History, and the natural sciences.

GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, D. C.,
May 9, 1867.

ALLAN A. GRIFFITH, A.M., Professor of Elocution:

Dear Sir,-The admirable manner in which you have explained your principles and practice of Elocution, merits our congratulations. All agree that your lessons were a decided success. Having been present myself at all the lectures before the students, and also participated in the special practice with the Fathers and scholastics, I most heartily concur in all their commendations. I must add, too, that the proficiency of the students has exceeded my expectations. I hope that your success will be as great elsewhere as it has been here. It is a pleasure, as I deem it a duty, to recommend you warmly to all who wish to obtain this elegant and necessary, but too often neglected ac

again, I remain, very respectfully yours, JAMES A. WARD,

Prefect of Schools and Prof. of Rhetoric.

[From Very Rev. E. SORIN, Father Provincial, etc.]

PROFESSOR GRIFFITH, of Illinois, is now closing, in our institution, a course of lectures on Elocution, which have detained him nearly a month among us. I am happy to bear testimony not alone to his complete success here and at St. Mary's, in the branch of education he so admirably teaches, but to the universal regret his departure creates among teachers and pupils. As a proof of my entire satisfaction, I have advised the Superiors to re-engage him for next year. NOTRE DAME, Ind., March 20, 1867.

READING.-Professor Griffith's entertainment last evening was a complete success in every respect. The hall was literally packed. No elocutionist or public reader has ever taken so firm a hold on our literary citizens. The professor is a most accomplished master of the divine art of utterance, and has been so untiring as a student that he is full of his subject, and draws from every author with equal freedom, and renders every selection with surpassing power. The exercises last evening were a fitting termination to a highly successful engagement with the Georgetown College and the Columbian College Law School.- Washington Chronicle, Dec. 24,1867.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Oct. 26, 1866. PROFESSOR A. A. GRIFFITH:

My dear Sir,-I presume you received notice from Mr. Bentley, Secretary of our Board, of your election to a Professorship in the University, in accordance with your proposal. We are extremely anxious to hear from you, and to have you with us again. Yours truly, J. C. BURROUGHS, Pres't.