Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed fund will endow occasional lectures to Harvard audiences by authorities on the theater. During his lifetime, Spencer, the late Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, invited such personages of Granville Barker and John Gielgud into his class room...
During its 168 years the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa has never had a permanent home but has roosted in a Cambridge Unitarian church, Massachusetts Hall, Holworth, and Boylston. It still has no permanent headquarters. Currently business meetings are held in Harvard hall, dinners are served in sundry places, and literary exercises take place in Sanders Theater...
Nicholas Verven '51 and J. David Baumann '51 carried off the two first prizes of $50 each in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest held in Paine Hall last night. Verven gave the Allocution by Pope Plus XII to the Consistory of Cardinals on the arrest of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and Baumann recited Ulysses' speech on order, from Shakespeare's "Troilus and Crossida...
...candidates for the awards were judged by a three-man committee, composed of Mark deWolfe '37, professor of Law, Edward A. Weeks '22, editor of the Atlantic Mouthly, and David T. W. Mellerd '21, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, was honorary judge...
...Boylston Prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston, in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory. The competition is ordinarily handled by the Boylston Professor, but that chair has been vacant since the death of Theodore Spencer...