Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boylston Competition, held annually en Paine Hall of the Music Building, is the oldest collegiate elocution contest in the United States. The Lee Wade prize was established later with the stipulation that it be called the first prize of the evening...
Second honors, and the first Boylston Prize went to Laird McK. Ogle '37, for his recitation in Greek of Hector's farewell to Andromache from the sixth book of Homer's Iliad. Both these winners receive $50 each...
Howard L. Blackwell, Jr. '39 was second in the Boylston prizes, and Willard M. Whitman, Jr. '39, third, each receiving...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, Honorary Judge for last night, was unable to attend. The three judges were Charles Francis Adams '88, Edward A. Taft '04, and Charles B. Gulick '90, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...
Just 120 years ago, in 1817, Ward Nicholas Boylston founded two Boylston Prizes for Elocution in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the professorship which bears his name today. The awards stipulated a competition open to seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing in Harvard College, to be decided by finalists in an annual contest. Tonight, well over a century later, ten Harvard undergraduate finalists will do verbal battle in the Music Building for these prizes, and for their more recent counterpart, the Lee Wade Prize, founded...