Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finalists for the Lee Wade and Boylston prize competition were chosen from trials held yesterday...
...together with a schedule of radio talks to be given over WAAB by faculty members has been mailed to undergraduates, alumni, and men in public life. The ranks of the Guardian Graduate Advisory Board, chairmanned by Walter Lippmann '10, have been strengthened by the enlistment of Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, emeritus...
...With the Boylston and Lee Wade speaking competition once again getting under way, the inadequacy of these prizes in stimulating and rewarding a genuine interest in public speaking becomes painfully apparent. For a contest that requires a mere verbal recitation of long memory passages hardly fits into the present day oratorical picture, when speakers and would-be speakers are most interested in developing their own ability to organize material and deliver it more or less extemporaneously. Clearly some change that would give value to the competition as an exercise in public speaking instead of a recital of other people...
...reason why the Boylston Prize, and the Lee Wade Prize which was later grouped with it, has remained a recitative spectacle rather than a genuine sally in public speaking is not hard to find. In a day when oratory was fine art, and the limbs and outward flourishes of speech more highly rates than keen thinking, the original bequest provided for "a public exhibition in elocution." The speaker was "never to rehearse his own composition," but merely to learn by rote some famous passage and deliver it as best he could. The Lee Wade competition even went...
...from the limbo of mid-nineteenth century rhetoric, it is high time for University Hall to adapt the conditions under which the contest operates to the demands of modern times. For only by making the contest a competition in writing and delivering original material can the Lee Wade and Boylston awards proceed further in their purpose to stimulate and develop the ideal of effective public speaking in the college...