Monthly Rhetoricals
From the Annual Catalogue, 1880-81:
Each class in the Department of Philosophy and the Arts meets once a week for lessons in the English Bible, and once for Rhetorical Exercises. Public Rhetorical Exercises, consisting of orations and essays, are held in the College Chapel monthly, in which students of the Classical Course take part in turn.
The topics of Terrell's talks at the monthly rhetorical exercises (she is listed as Miss M. E. Church in these programs) reflect both her love of literature -- particularly poetry -- and her engagement with weighty subject matter:
- Dicken's Estimate of America
- Longfellow's Heroines
- Possibilities of the South
- The Inspiration of Oppression