Robert Irving Fulton, A.M.

              Lecture-Recitals



An evening of wholesome instruction and delightful entertainment.



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Dramas:

HAMLET, MACBETH, MERCHANT OF VENICE, AS YOU LIKE IT, INGOMAR, THE HUNCHBACK




Programs:

ENTIRE EVENINGS OF MISCELLANEOUS INTERPRETATIVE READINGS, RECITATIONS AND PERSONATIONS FROM STANDARD AND POPULAR AUTHORS.




Special Lectures:



THE PHILOSOPHY OF EXPRESSION,


READING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS,


LITERATURE THROUGH INTERPRETATION,


KINDS AND QUALITIES OF DISCOURSE,


THE TOUCHSTONE OF DEBATE,


THE SOURCES OF POWER IN ORATORY.





ROBERT IRVING FULTON, A. M.,
 DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORATORY AND PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY IN THE 
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
 DELAWARE, OHIO




For Terms and Dates, address A. M. WECHT, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.





Announcement



Arrangements have been made by which Professor Fulton may accept a limited number of engagements for public recitals and lectures in towns and cities which may be reached without too much loss of time from his college duties.  He hardly needs an introduction; a native of Virginia and educated in her best schools, trained by the most eminent elocutionists of a score of years ago, and developed in the larger school of experience, he is recognized as a lecturer and reader of the highest rank.




Collaborating with Professor T. C. Trueblood, of the University of Michigan, he is the joint author of Fulton and Trueblood's 
Practical Elocution,
 
Choice Readings,
 
Patriotic Eloquence,
 and 
Standard Selections,
 all of which are used extensively as text-books in the various schools and colleges throughout the country.  He is one of the founders of the 
National Speech-Arts Association,
 a continuous officer since its inception sixteen years ago, was twice its President, and is now the Chairman of its Board of Directors.  He was also one of the organizers and served five years as President of the 
Ohio Speech-Arts Association.
 Through his devotion to the interests of public speaking and by his personal effort the 
Ohio Inter-Collegiate Debating League,
 composed of the Western Reserve University, Oberlin College, the Ohio State University and the Ohio Wesleyan University; and the 
Central Oratorical League,
 composed of the University of Illinois, Indiana State University, Ohio State University, West Virginia State University, Cornell University and the Ohio Wesleyan University, were formed.  In these Leagues his pupils, representing Wesleyan, have won nine of the thirteen debates and five of the eight oratorical contests.  Three years ago the O. S. U. withdrew, and the Debating League instituted the double-team triangular system since adopted by many other colleges and universities; and the 
Central Oratorical League
 has been reorganized recently and is composed of Columbia University, Cornell University, Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia.




Professor Fulton has had a successful experience as a popular reader before the general public and as a lecturer on educational subjects in social and literary circles, teachers' institutes, normal schools, high schools, colleges and universities.  Engrossed with the duties and opportunities of the class-room the past dozen years, he has not responded frequently to calls for his services as a public reader and entertainer; but he has now yielded to that demand and is accepting engagements for Friday, Saturday or Monday evenings.




ADAM M. WECHT, MANAGER, OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.




DELAWARE, OHIO
.





Some personal Testimony



FROM THREE EDUCATORS:




BISHOP JAMES W. BASHFORD
, Ph. D., D. D., 
formerly President of the Ohio Wesleyan University:
 
From personal observation of the results achieved, I do not hesitate to pronounce Prof. Robt. I. Fulton unexcelled as a teacher of the true art of public speaking.  His system rests upon scientific principles, corrects the acquired faults of the pupil, and furnishes the natural method of developing his latent power.




S. S. 
LAWS
, M. D., LL. D., 
late President of the Missouri State University
 (Columbia, Mo.): 
From the marked improvement of the students of the Missouri University under the care of Prof. Robert I. Fulton, I have formed a very favorable opinion of his competence and success as a teacher.  But a most valuable feature of Prof.  Fulton's service is his practical embodiment of his instructions in his speaking.  His style is easy, graceful, natural and expressive, free from constraint and rant, and shows the result of culture.




E. 
HARLOW RUSSELL
, A. M., 
Principal of the State Normal School
 (Worcester, Mass.): 
Mr. R. I. Fulton gave in this school a lecture on elocution, which was sound in theory, intelligent in form, interesting both in matter and manner, and illustrated by readings that were unusually pleasant and tasteful.





FROM THREE SPECIAL PRIVATE TEACHERS
:




JAMES E. MURDOCH
, 
the Eminent Shakespearian Reader, Actor, Author and Lecturer
 (Cincinnati, O., September 3, 1889):  Possessing, as you do, much ability in the presentation of the expressive forms of speech, and feeling assured of your earnest efforts to elevate the study of our art to its proper place in the public estimation, I cheerfully bear witness to your capability for the work.




JOHN RYDER
, 
the Celebrated English Actor and Elocutionist:




LONDON, ENG.
, September 5, 1882.




R. I. 
FULTON, ESQ.
, 
My Dear Sir:
 Your elocution is excellent, and any further instruction from me would be superfluous.  I consider you quite capable of instructing any one.




MOSES TRUE BROWN
, M. A., 
Principal of the Boston School of Oratory and Professor of Oratory at Tuft's College
 (May 4, 1886): 
I have found Professor Robert I. Fulton an ardent student, a man of fine attainments, and with a mental grasp of the subject that augurs for him a high place in the profession, both as a teacher and illustrator.




FROM THREE MINISTERS
:




REV. JESSE BOWMAN YOUNG
, D. D., 
Pastor of the Walnut Hills M. E. Church
 (Cincinnati, O.):  His high intelligence, his diligent studies, his graceful manner, his splendid voice, and his insight as an interpreter of the choicest forms of literature, taken along with his range of utterance, have deservedly given him rank among the foremost men in his profession.




RABBI H. BERKOWITZ
, D. D., 
Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Jehudah
 (Kansas City, Mo.):  I deem him most capable and efficient.  He is gifted with that happy faculty of interesting his hearers and imparting to them his own knowledge which is the test of the true teacher.  Moreover, the proof of the theories he presents is at once offered in a convincing manner by his method of reciting the most difficult and intricate selections, in which every phase of human feeling is described or impersonated.




REV. J. H. WILLIAMS
, 
Pastor of the Clyde Congregational Church
 (San Francisco, Cal.):  I unhesitatingly place him in the front rank of the professional readers of our country.  His selections are choice and cover a wide range of style and topics; and he renders them in a way that makes them vivid and intensely interesting to an audience.




Some Press Notices



A 
HALF-DOZEN STATES, NORTH AND SOUTH
:




The Minneapolis Tribune,
 Minneapolis, Minn.:


A cultured audience listened to Robert I. Fulton in Century Hall last evening.  Mr. Fulton has a quiet, pleasing manner, as well as a finely controlled voice.  He does not 'tear a passion to tatters,' but gives an impression of reserve force that has its weight.  The variety of selections showed his versatility.




The Democrat,
 Ann Arbor, Mich.:


Mr. Fulton's smooth, clear, well modulated voice added to his selections a charm that few readers can give.  He captivated a large audience in the Law lecture room.




The Bee,
 Toledo, O.:


Porf. Fulton recited to a much delighted audience in the Y. M. C. A. Hall last evening.  He responded to encores with the richest bits of humor, and his rendition convulsed the audience with laughter.




The Plain Dealer,
 Cleveland, O.:


Prof. Robert Irving Fulton's address on Expression in the university chapel was scholarly and showed keen perception of psychological and philosophic principles.




The Daily Gazette,
 Delaware, O.:


Prof. Fulton is a masterly interpreter of the thoughts of others, and has a rich range of style.  His splendid rendition held the audience in almost breathless stillness.  He occupies honestly the high place he has won in public confidence everywhere.




The Times-Star,
 Cincinnati, O.:


Prof. Fulton held the audience spell-bound.  In his briefest illustration there was more instruction to the teachers than in a series of ordinary lectures.




The Daily Advertiser,
 Lexington, Ky.:


The entertainment was a complete success.  During the recital, the audience was frequently convulsed with laughter, and the speaker was loudly applauded.  His impersonations were such as are seldom seen except from the finest actors.  He has a peculiar magnetism which renders him very attractive in speaking.  Everyone was delighted with the performance.




The Daily Tribune,
 Fort Smith, Ark.:


The audience enjoyed a delightful entertainment by Prof. R. I. Fulton.  He is possessed of a voice of rare musical sweetness and power, and is a thorough master of the science and art of expression.  In pathos, comedy, the drama, the negro dialect, and Italian patois, he was equally at home, and swayed his audience with a skillful hand in all of the emotions incident to the character he was delineating.  Altogether, the event proved one of the most delightful of the season.




The Daily Democrat,
 Sherman, Tex.:


Prof. R. I. Fulton read selection after selection, ranging from the lightest and wittiest to the heaviest and most tragic, and the large audience sat for two hours listening to his marvelous renditions.  The naturalness of his style and his magnetic individuality puts him in perfect sympathy with his audience.







A 
DOZEN STATES, EAST AND WEST
:




The Yale News,
 New Haven, Conn.:


Prof. Robert I. Fulton, of Ohio Wesleyan University, gave an address in Lampson Lyceum on 'The Art of Public Speaking.'  Yale men heard a topic of growing importance discussed by a man of acknowledged authority.  Prof. Fulton has an engaging personality and stands for that modern, straight-forward type of public speaking which is gaining such a hold on the practical men of today.  It is very largely through his work that, in oratory and debate, Wesleyan has come to rank with the foremost universities of the country.  (A review of the lecture followed.)




The Herald,
 Newport, R. I.:


Prof. R. I. Fulton, of the Ohio Wesleyan University, gave an address characterized by deep thought and marked eloquence, which was keenly appreciated.




The North American,
 Philadelphia, Pa.:


Prof. Fulton's lecture on 'The Sources of Power in Oratory' before the Summer Theological School at Ocean Grove today was a rich intellectual feast.  He is one of the successes of the summer school, and his lectures have grown in interest and profit daily.




The Advocate,
 Rockville, Md.:


Never have we listened with greater pleasure to recitations than on the occasion of Mr. R. I. Fulton's recital.




The Washingtonian,
 Leesburg, Va.:


The audience was highly entertained and delighted by the literary banquet he presented.  He is a gentleman of fine talent as a reader, and he beautifully brought out the true meaning of the authors from whom he read.




The New Dominion,
 Morgantown, W. Va.:


Prof. Fulton's lecture-recital in the university chapel was one of the best entertainments of the year.




The Argus,
 Crawfordsville, Ind.:


Prof. Fulton's entertainment was most excellent.  We expected much, but got more.  Unlike many exercises of this kind, it was entirely free from unnaturalness and affectation, both of voice and action.  Every recitation was received with hearty appreciation.




The Jeffersonian,
 Greenfield, Ind.:


This gifted elocutionist gave an intellectual treat of select recitations to a large audience of our best citizens.  He is truly fitted for the profession of his choice.




Brown County Democrat,
 Mt. Sterling, Ill.:


Prof. R. I. Fulton gave one of the finest literary entertainments ever given in this town.  His selections were superbly rendered.




St. Louis
 (Mo.) 
Republican:


Today the work of the State Teachers' Association, the success of which is unparalleled, closed.  Round after round of applause greeted Prof. R. I. Fulton as he finished a masterly and practical talk on the science and art of oratory.




The Daily Star,
 Warrensburg, Mo.:


His program covered a very wide range.  Prof. Fulton is evidently not of that class who think that good elocution consists in ranting.  On the contrary, he seems to have realized that the perfection in art is to conceal art—that the best elocution is that in which the picture is made so plain that the painter of it is forgotten.  Hence his manner is delightfully simple and unaffected.




Kansas City Daily Times:


The audience was most pleasantly entertained for two hours, and high praise was in the mouths of all present as they departed for their homes.




Kansas City Journal:


Mr. Robert I. Fulton spoke for an hour and held his intelligent and critical audience in rapt attention throughout, after which he recited in a manner as nearly the perfection of the art as could be conceived.




Kansas City Star:


The evening was one among the authors; the selections were fresh and enjoyable, and it was, without exception, equal to any entertainment of the kind ever given in the city.




The Citizen,
 Paola, Kas.:


His selections were rendered in a masterly manner.  The entertainment was of that superior character which no lover of first-class reading and elocution can afford to miss.




The Denver Republican,
 Denver, Colo.:


The chapel of the Denver University was crowded last night.  Mr. Robert Irving Fulton has a fine, round style, characterized by extremely good taste.  He recited most artistically.




The Chronicle,
 San Francisco, Cal.:


Prof. Fulton made an exceedingly interesting speech, after which he gave several recitations, which were thoroughly enjoyed by all.




The San Diego
 (Cal.) 
Union:


Mr. Fulton's recitations brought a perfect storm of applause.  His humor provoked much laughter.



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