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Only 20 students have registered for the Boylston Prize Speaking Contest, according to Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20 associate professor of Public Speaking. In previous years there have been at least twice as many applicants...
...veiled threats, and of panic in the face of a clock that is running down. In the first stage it centered around newly-elected governor John A. Volpe, around William F. Callahan, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and around the $200 million Prudential Center at Huntington Avenue and Boylston Street. In the second the principal actor was Mayor Donald L. Gibbs of Newton...
...University will not sell the Observatory land outright, Whitlock said, it is interested in exchanging it for the Burns playground. This playground riverfront area has long been considered as a second choice for the tenth House if the sale of the MTA's storage and switching yards along Boylston St. to the University fails to materialize...
Signs and Sounds. Amiable, ruminative, often obvious, sometimes pontifical, Poetry and Experience is based on MacLeish's Harvard lectures as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and it assumes a student's curiosity in taking apart a butterfly to see what makes it flutter. Ideas do not make poetry flutter, according to MacLeish. Reduced to prose, even great poetry is full of platitudes-life is short, love is sweet (or bitter), death is final. George Moore held that words have meaning only as signs of the things they stand for. Mallarme believed that all poetic meaning stemmed from...
Traffic conditions localy mirrored those all over the city. The slight grade of Boylston St. proved too much for two huge semi-trailers and an MTA bus. The three blocked up traffic for nearly an hour. After sliding to a halt in front of one of the area's gas stations, two ladies attacked with their shoes a service station attendant who told them to move because they were blocking the entrance...