Speech education in Arkansas's institutions of higher learning has a long and illustrious history. In l89l, the Arkansas Baptist Association opened Central College for women to students ranging from first grade through college. The curriculum was departmentalized into preparatory, high school, and collegiate levels with a shared faculty for all…

This book presents a concise history of the first 100 years of development of the school of speech at Northwestern University (Illinois). Following an introduction that provides an overview of the school, the first chapter focuses on both the efforts of Robert McLean Cumnock to found a school of oratory on the principles of elocution and the…

The seeds of mass communication research in broadcasting were extracurricular, not academic, inspired by experimental campus radio stations. Prior to the mid-1930s, radio research was scarce. Until World War II, radio speech was the most important topic, followed by articles on how to use radio for improving instruction. There are three…