Current Opinion, Monthly.  Review of the World, Persons in the Foreground, Music and Drama, Science and Discovery, Religion and Social Ethics, Literature and Art, The Industrial World, Reconstruction.

The Literary Digest, Weekly.  Topics of the Day, Foreign Comment, Science and Invention, Letters and Art, Religion and Social Service, Current Poetry, Miscellaneous, Investments and Finance.

    The Independent, an illustrated weekly.

EXERCISES

1.  Describe to the class the contents of a recent issue of a magazine.  Concentrate upon important departments, articles, or policies, so that you will not deliver a mere list.

2.  Tell how an article in some periodical led you to read more widely to secure fuller information.

3.  Explain why you read a certain periodical regularly.

4.  Speak upon one of the following topics: 

Freak magazines. 
My magazine. 
Policies of magazines. 
Great things magazines have done. 
Technical magazines. 
Adventures at a magazine counter. 
Propaganda periodicals.

5.  Explain exactly how you study.

6.  How would you secure an interview with some person of prominence?

7.  Is the “cramming” process of studying a good one?

8.  Is it ever justifiable?

9.  Explain how, why, and when it may be used by men in their profession.

10.  Give the class an idea of the material of some book you have read recently.

11.  Explain how reading a published review or hearing comments on a book induced you to read a volume which proved of value to you.

12.  Can you justify the reading of the last part only of a book?  Consider non-fiction.

13.  For preserving clippings, notes, etc., which method is better—­cards filed in boxes or drawers, scrap-books, or slips and clippings grouped in envelopes?

14.  Report to the class some information upon one of the following.  Tell exactly how and where you secured your information.

Opium traffic in China. 
Morphine habit in the United States. 
Women in literature. 
A drafted army as compared with a volunteer army. 
Orpheum as a theater name. 
Prominent business women. 
War time influence of D’Annunzio. 
Increasing cost of living. 
Secretarial courses. 
The most beautiful city of the American continent. 
Alfalfa. 
Women surgeons. 
The blimp. 
Democracy in Great Britain compared with that of the United States. 
The root of the Mexican problem. 
San Marino. 
Illiteracy in the United States. 
How women vote.

(NOTE.—­The teacher should supply additions, substitutes, and modifications.)

CHAPTER VII

PLANNING THE SPEECH