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...Ralph Waldo Emerson was in the exact same position as five students will be tonight--vying for the honor of a Boylston Prize in Elocution...
...Emerson's days, Harvard overseers mandated that students spend two years in a course that combined rhetoric and moral philosophy. The Boylston Prize, established in 1817, provided a competitive atmosphere for students to hone their skills...
...prize was endowed by Ward Nicolas Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicolas Boylston, who himself established the Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory...
According to Memorial Church Minister and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who will also be judging the Boylston contest, rhetoric was given a more significant role in early American history. An eloquent man was also an educated man, he says...
Hood, one of the Boylston contestants, faults the examples set by prominent public figures...