Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The E m e r s o n i a 11 25 ► »- - »- HENRY LAWRENCE SOUTHWICK Henry Lawrence Southwick was born in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, June twenty- first, 1863. After spending his early years in the free schools, he completed the prescribed course at the Harris School, Dorchester, Mass,, at the age of fourteen. The following year he entered the Dorchester High School, and from here he was graduated in 1880. with high honors and as valedictorian of his class. He obtained a position on the Boston Herald; and for seven years “ Harry ” was a familiar figure about the Herald office; at this time he also attended the Monroe College of Oratory. His graduation in 1887 marked the closing of his journalistic work. The next year Mr. Southwick conducted the class in Oratory at Martha ' s Vineyard Summer Institute; and in the autumn he was made Master of Elocution and Oratory in the William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. Eighteen hundred and ninety-six ninety-seven was spent with Augustin Daly ' s com- pany. In the fall of ' 98 he was called back to the William Penn Charter School, where for three years he taught as Master of English; but his interests were in Boston, and at the close of the third year he returned to Emerson College of Oratory and, in partnership with Mr. Kenny, purchased the school. Since then he has served as Dean of the institution. With the assistance of the mature judgment of President Rolfe, and the services of a compe- tent corps of teachers, Dean Southwick has succeeded in broadening and strengthening the courses of study, until to-day the College stands for a higher scholarship than ever before. In addition to his duties as Dean of the College, he is kept busy giving recitals during the winter vacations, and through the summer months his services are called for by many Chautauqua and summer school managers. And he is known to the public not only as a reader but as a lecturer. He gives many addresses upon literary and patriotic subjects. His “Orators and Oratory of Shakespeare,” and “Patrick Henry” are perhaps the best known of his lectures. At present Dean .Southwick is residing in Brookline where he and Mrs. Southwick, together with their three children, Ruth, Mildred and Jessie, are always “at home” to Emerson students. Not the least delightful of the many delightful memories which will linger with the alumni in after years will be the recollection of winter evenings spent at the Southwick fireside.

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26 T h o K m e r s o 11 i a it CHARLES WINSLOW KIDDER FOSS LAMPRELL WHITNEY SILAS A. ALDEN, M.D.