Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidates have been chosen to compete on Thursday, May 8, for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes for elocution. The judges to select these men were Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor F. L. Winter '86, Associate Professor of Public Speaking...
...Wade Prize of $50 was founded in 1915 by Dr., Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, Lee Wade, 2d, of the class of 1914. The two Boylston Prizes of and $25 respectively were founded in 1917 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Professorship now held by Dean . The competition for these prizes is open to Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores, of good standing in the College...
...Boylston Prize for Elocution...
...Wade Prize of $50, founded in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, and the two Boylston Prizes of $35 and $25 respectively, founded by Ward Nicholas Boylston, will be awarded on May 8. The competition is open to Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores of good standing in the college for excellence in elocution. Competitors are to submit their selections to the Boylston Professor, Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75, for approval not later than April...
...perfectly true, as Dean Edgell points out, that many of the buildings are unspeakably bad from an aesthetic standpoint. The Boylston Laboratory for example, has many times crushed out joy from the hearts of happy mortals coming down from examinations; and the dark front of Sever has its seasons of appearing gloomily prophetic. But in spite of these architectural miscarriages, the ensemble, especially to a Harvard man, is distinctly attractive. The University did not blossom into being overnight; it has been spreading and adding to itself for almost three centuries, and its very heterogeneity is a living reminder...