3. Tell of any peculiar methods you may have observed or heard of by which

speakers have sought to aid their powers of concentration, such as looking

fixedly at a blank spot in the ceiling, or twisting a watch charm.

 

4. What effect do such habits have on the audience?

 

5. What relation does pause bear to concentration?

 

6. Tell why concentration naturally helps a speaker to change pitch, tempo, and

emphasis.

 

7. Read the following selection through to get its meaning and spirit clearly in

your mind. Then read it aloud, concentrating solely on the thought that you are

expressing--do not trouble about the sentence or thought that is coming. Half

the troubles of mankind arise from anticipating trials that never occur. Avoid

this in speaking. Make the end of your sentences just as strong as the

beginning. _CONCENTRATE._

 

_WAR!_

 

The last of the savage instincts is war. The cave man's club made law and

procured food. Might decreed right. Warriors were saviours.

 

In Nazareth a carpenter laid down the saw and preached the brotherhood of man.

Twelve centuries afterwards his followers marched to the Holy Land to destroy