Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First prizes in the Boylston elocution contest were awarded to Tallman C. Bookhout '15, of Roxbury, N. Y., and Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, of London, England, as a result of the final round in Sanders Theatre last evening. Each speaker was given a prize of $30. The selections read by the winners were respectively, "Intervention With Cuba," by John M. Thurston, and "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes...
...final contest for the Boylston elocution prizes will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Ten upper classmen, three Seniors and seven Juniors, out of the 22 who entered the competition, have been retained from the elimination round. The contest will be open to the public...
...final contest for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution will take place in Sanders Theatre, Thursday evening, May 21, at 8 o'clock. The following men have been chosen judges: Mayor Curley, Robert Bacon '80, Fellow of Harvard College and formerly Secretary of State and Ambassador to France, James F. Curtis '99, of Boston, Arthur S. Pier '95, of Milton, William L. Putnam '82, of Boston, James H. Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature in the University, and Dr. Henry P. Walcott '58, of Cambridge, Fellow of Harvard College. They will award two first prizes...
Assurance has been given by the Superintendent of streets of the city of Cambridge that Boylston street in front of the Freshman Dormitories and leading up to the Anderson Bridge will be put into excellent shape during the summer and will be ready for the football crowds next fall. The form of pavement has not yet been decided upon...
Entries for the competition must fall under one of the following heads: (1) A play of realism; (2) a play of fantasy; (3) a fairy play; (4) a musical play, or (5) an animal play. Manuscripts must be sent to the Children's Players, 264 Boylston Street, Boston, before August 31. None will be accepted before July 1. The judges will be Miss B. D. Flebbe, Professor G. P. Baker, and W. P. Eaton...