Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orators, chosen as finalists from a field of 45, will compete for five prizes totalling $145.00 in the annual Boylston Speaking Contest Wednesday night in Paine Hall...
Judging the contest will be R. Ammi Cutter '22, Bernard DeVoto '20. Robert Frost '99, David McCord '21, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16. Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, who conducted the competitions regularly until his retirement in 1928, will be the honorary judge...
...contest, one of the oldest in the University, was founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in memory of his uncle, who established the Boylston professorship. The man who holds this chair is traditionally the conductor of the contest. Robert S. Hillyer 17 is in charge of this year's affair...
Among the outstanding personalities associated with the House as tutors are Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Bruce Hopper, associate professor of Government, George W. Woodworth, associate professor of Music, and Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy. Prominent Associates of the House are Robert Frost and Dean Landis...
...course in Lyric Poetry by Robert Hillyer, Boylston Professor in Rhetoric and Oratory, and two half-courses on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, to be given by Harry T. Levin, Faculty instructor in English, are two of the alterations in next year's schedule...