Word: boylston
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Phyllis Forbes Kerr: Recent works Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall...
Another thing: why does the Athletic Department's office door on John F. Kennedy St. still insist its address is 60 Boylston St., even though the thoroughfare was renamed John F. Kennedy St. before many of today's undergraduates entered the College...
...writing in reference to your coverage of the Boylston Oratory Competition (April 20, page 1) You can a picture of Jeffrey Rossman, and an announcement that he "beat our six competitors" to win first prize. However, there were two prizes awarded in the competition on Friday night. Pamela Thomas '85 presented a passage from James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," for which she received the distinction of second place. The judges took 40 minutes to reach their decision, and announced that each of the contestants had an advocate in the deliberations. Nicole Galland, who presented LeGuin's "The Ones...
...Boylston Oratory Competition might seem a place where the former all-male, all-white Harvard tradition would continue to dominate both the selection of material and the competitors. However, Harvard is different now than when the prize was bequested--women and minorities are among the population, and many more varieties of literature are read and taught. Pamela's passage underlined this change: the Baldwin selection was an account of the death of a young Black boy run over by a car full of drunken white men, and how this death affected the boy's family, and the next generation...
Cabot, honorary chairman of the Cabot Corporation, returned to Harvard this week to regale an intimate group of 10 at Boylston Hall with this story and a host of other high-flying experiences including World War I and 1910 Harvard Air Show stories...