Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this were true, but, sadly enough for the erudite gentlemen who delight in classifying the University and all its contents with one clever phrase, not all the instinct of curiosity is purged by a dose of indifference. There are fire-engines and fireengines, but a whole laboratory class in Boylston will rush to the windows to watch one rush down Massachusetts Avenue (although some hint at ulterior motives for this interest). Airplanes are a commonplace; the single shells have been on the river for weeks; roadsters gleaming with nickel are not rare--still they attract the attention of undergraduates...
...been periodically attended to. The floods brought attention to the levee negro. But Catfish Row is likewise Africa in America. The attention drawn by the Liberal Club to a worthy drama has involved a too-familiar identification of the name of Harvard with the lighted overhangs of Tremont and Boylston Street; yet the identification seems this time not unjustified...
Four men were awarded prizes last night at the finals of the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking contest held in Sanders Theatre. These winners were Edward Dinsmore Wheeler '28, Orazio Ercole Vaccaro '29, Robert Clifton Weaver '29, and Abbot Peterson...
Wheeler was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of "Pecksniff to his daughters" by Charles Dickens. Vaccaro won the Boylston award of $50 with the poem "The Laughters" by Louis Untermeyer. Weaver, reciting "Abraham Lincoln" by Booker T. Washington, and Peterson, reciting "The Admiral's Ghost" by Alfred Noyes were awarded the two $30 Boylston prizes...
...Wade prize of $50 was founded in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son Lee Wade II '14, who was keenly interested in the Boylston prizes when in college. The three Boylston prizes, one of $50 and two of $30, are among the oldest prizes in the University. They were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston '35 in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston...