Word: boylston
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George Bluestone '47 and Paul I. Sparer '49 won first prizes of $50 and John Hedges '48, Hugh M. Hill '48, and Francis S. MacNutt '46 won second prizes of $25 in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest at Paine Hall last night. The contest was judged by novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26, Lewis Perry, former principle of Exeter Academy, and Major-General Sherman Miles, U.S.A...
...will compete in the annual Boylston Speaking Contest tonight in Pain Hall at 8 o'clock, reciting passages from either poetry or prose for two first prizes of $50 and three seconds...
Yardlings have Widener and Boylston close at hand; House-dwellers have their own libraries; commuters have nothing but a week old copy of Time. 400 undergraduates live in the average House, and have about 10,000 books at their disposal. While Dudley could hold no such collection, it does have facilities for a nucleus, and more shelves could be easily built to hold a few reference books and the texts used in most undergraduate courses. It's a pretty poor philosophy, or anything else, to ignore a problem when it can't be completely solved...
...preliminary winnowing was supervised by Theodore Spencer '28, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and director of the contest, and Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking...
...election competition this year will include two first awards of $50 each and three seconds of $25 each. The contest will be judged by Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26; and Major General Sherman Miles, "U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...