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...awards are divided into four classifications. The first is a gold medal to be awarded to the individual or organization deemed by the Jury of Award to merit recognition for distinguished contemporary services to advertising. The second group consists of four prizes of one thousand dollars each for distinguished individual advertisements which are most effective in the use of text, pictorial illustration, display line, and typography...
Contestants may speak in English, Latin, or Greek; but no selection in any language except English has won an award since George Santayana '86 won a second prize in his Junior year with a selection in Latin. Last year's winners were R. H. Jones '30, M. V. Anastos '30, H. G. Meyer '30, and Carlton Greene...
Registration for all men intending to compete for the Boylston and Lee Wade Public Speaking Prizes, the third oldest award of the University, will close on Monday, February 24. All Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing are eligible for these prizes. Competitors must be prepared with a memorized selection, about five minutes in length, from a standard literary work and must have their choice approved by Professor F. C. Packard...
...Wade prize of $50 will be awarded the winner of the contest. This prize was established in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son whose name it bears and who participated in the Boylston contest while he was an undergraduate of Harvard. The competition this year marks the one hundred and twelfth consecutive contest of the prize's existence. This year the stipend of the second Boylston award has been raised from $30 to $35 while the first prize, which ranks second to the Lee Wade prize remains at $50. The Boylston prizes were founded...
Perhaps more important than the revision in the awarding of the scholarships is the change that gives greater freedom in their use. Taking away the narrow restrictions that have held the winner of an award to three years at Oxford, the trustees now sanction a two year scholarship at England's oldest university, followed by an optional third year there or elsewhere in Great Britain. Such latitude is almost certain to result in a further realization of the cosmopolitan potentialities latent in foreign scholarships...