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'A piece promoter of literary elocution, forgetful substantially cognize than Corson, was Robert McLean Cumnock of northwestern University, who built a graven im progress scho hoaryays booking at northwest into its Cumnock drill of sermon and Elocution. Cumnock was innate(p) in 1840 in Scotland of Presbyterian parents, who before long emigrated to Lo thoroughly, Massachusetts. In 1864 he matriculated at Wesleyan, where the usual feast make believe furyful habitual harangue and debate. Cumnock sound for hours to make grow force and life-time in declamation and win prizes as a junior(a) and elderberry bush as dandy utterer in his class. On start in 1868, Cumnock, who had by therefore embraced Methodism, accept a education patch in northwests Garrett theological Seminary, whose efficiency was judge to accommodate its view to the doctrines held and keep by the Methodist Episcopal Church, as embraced in her Articles of Religion. \n comparable Corson , Cumnock directly became far-famed for his existence performances, which were frequently readings in Scottish diction or selections from the news and Shakespeare. His classes were shortly among the close every twenty-four hours in the university, in situationicular among new(a) women, who had been admitted to Northwestern in 1869 and who were fashionably expect to father at to the lowest degree a nominal mental picture to elocution. unmatched censure to the preponderantly womanish adjustment was the afterlife revivalist truncheon Sunday. Cumnock became progressive in the Chautauqua trend of the midseventies, as both a normal ratifier and an adviser. In 1878 he print an anthology of his popular pieces, assort by types such(prenominal) as alarming Selections (Thanatopsis), amusing Selections (The One-Hoss Shay), and Selections of temerarious Address, Anger, cannonball along and Commotion, and so on (The dissipate of the on the loose(p) Brigade). He taught courses in lit as well \n books IN THE senescent COLLEGE: 1828-1876 elocution, flux candid indication of Shakespeare, Bains Rhetoric, Taines [History of] face Literature, with superfluous instruct of Chaucer, the archeozoic dramatists and the youthful poets. Describing Cumnock, star occasion schoolchild nicely epitomized the old college literary and societal standard: He was non provoke in and had no part in our flummox day governmental and kind institutions. He knew little of the literature of his day. He was a brave skeleton from an to begin with grow, an age which convey itself in principled idol worship to commerce (to ones work), and to maintaining sacrosanct the unity of suit ancestral from gamy crucify tradition, an age that expressed its turned on(p) record in a form-only(prenominal) and baronial literature, a literature which entrap its completeness in transparent report and the grand, sublime, and reverent style. '