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...Boylston contest was established in 1817 in honor of Nicholas Boylston, who endowed the Boylston professorship of rhetoric and oratory. The competition has been held annually since its conception...
...three judges who assessed last night's performance represented the three fields dependent on rhetoric--the clergy, the bar and academia--which John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787 and the University's first Boylston professor, celebrated in his course on rhetoric and oral delivery. Undergraduates in the 19th century took the course for three of their four years at Harvard...
Professor of English James Engell '73, who teaches English 34: "Elements of Rhetoric," served as administrator of the competition and spoke about the significance of the Boylston Prize...
...last course offered in public speaking was offered in 1970, he said. The Boylston competition stands as one of the last testimonies...
...came to Harvard with a strong interest in elocution, but there is not much opportunity to perform oral interpretation here," said Niki Villanueva Santo '00, one of the participants in the competition. "The Boylston contest is one of the last vestiges of that tradition at Harvard...