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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead hand of endowment has again brought to the fore the competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes for Elocution. To some thirty or forty men, that competition means a chance to recite some recognized literary gem in hopes of winning a cash prize. To all others who pay any attention to it, the Lee Wade and Boylston competition represents a revival of the old jade of elocution, strangely out of place in a modern college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPEAKING PRIZES | 3/3/1934 | See Source »

...declaim in measured tone, to weigh each gesture carefully, to poise and balance gracefully upon the stage may once have been the aims of public speaking, but they are relics of an era that considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPEAKING PRIZES | 3/3/1934 | See Source »

...competition for the Boylston and Lee Wade Prizes for Elocution will open with the first elimination contest on Wednesday afternoon, March 14, in Emerson D at one o'clock. Thirty-four men from the three upper classes will compete in this first elimination, in which their number will be halved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston, Lee Wade Prizes Contest To Begin March 14 | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

...connection with the work he is doing in public speaking. Professor Harvard is starting a series of phonograph records which may revolutionize all present methods of teaching in these courses. Through the Harvard University Press victrola records have already been made by Charles Townsend Copeland '32, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oxatory, Emeritus, and by Fred Norris Robinson '91, Professor of English. These records are now on sale, and include readings from chapters six and seven at the "Book of Revelation," by Professor Copeland, and part of Chaucer's. The denner's Tale" and "The Debate of the Body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPELAND AND ROBINSON LEAD RECORDING SERIES | 2/20/1934 | See Source »

...Boylston Prize is the third oldest in the University, having been founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in memory of his uncle, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, now held by Charles Townsend Copeland '32. The Lee Wade Prize was established in 1915 in honor of Lee Wade, II, of the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGISTRATION FOR SPEAKING CONTESTS ENDS FEBRUARY 26 | 2/13/1934 | See Source »

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