Word: bolyston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closing of registration for the annual Bolyston and Lee Wade Public Speaking Prizes on Monday begins a contest of interest, practical and traditional. The need for public speaking ability in all walks of life, is now more generally recognized than ever before. No longer do Chatauqua orations and famous trials make the prominent demands upon public speaking ability. Business men are now compelled to be more than amusing in their after dinner speeches. Engineers are more frequently forced to face large gatherings of experts and to unfold the advantages of the plans they are submitting. The surgeon in his clinic...
...with American Literature. It is open to any student in the University or in Radcliffe College, and is awarded for merit in work in the field of American Literature. The terms of competition are fixed from time to time by the Department of English, with the approval of the Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory or his representative. The Department is instructed to withheld the prize unless it is clearly merited, and any unexpended income may be either added to the principal or reserved to increase the amount of the prize in a subsequent year...
...have made it possible of offer a prize of $300 in the year 1919-20. Thereafter the stipend will be $275, In 1919-20 it will be offered for the best essay of from 5,000 to 10,000 words on a subject in American Literature, approved by the Bolyston Professor. Excellence in form as well as in substance will be required. Theses in college courses and chapters from theses submitted for the degree of Ph.D. may be accepted; but no essay submitted for any other prize in the same college year is eligible. Essays may be left...
...drawings will be displayed in the Exhibition Room of the Architectural Department on the main floor of Rogers Building, 491 Bolyston street, Boston, and will be open without charge from Monday, the 5th of January, to the 12th inclusive at the following hours: Week days, 12-6, 8-10 P. M.; Sundays...