Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicholas Verven '51 and J. David Baumann '51 carried off the two first prizes of $50 each in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest held in Paine Hall last night. Verven gave the Allocution by Pope Plus XII to the Consistory of Cardinals on the arrest of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and Baumann recited Ulysses' speech on order, from Shakespeare's "Troilus and Crossida...
...huge companies have lost their "personalities," Ford complained, and their millions of workers do not feel the "stimulation of the contest that excites" management. Bringing workers and consumers into greater sympathy with them is the large corporations' hardest job, Ford stated...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, announced yesterday that the ten finalists in the Boylston Speaking Contest are: J. David Baumann '51, William C. Becker '51, Justin S. Colin '45, R. Albert Feldman '51, Robert L. Fischelis '49, James B. Hompe '50, David S. Nicholl '45, John J. Trudon III '51, Nicholas Verven '51, and David F. Wheeler...
Only four men entered the diving competition and Matthews Hall's Don Sand-berry won the dive contest. Mannheim came in second best...
...regards my picture in your advertisement of the "Spring Frolic" I was completely misled as to the nature of the "contest" for which said photograph was submitted. My political aspirations are in no way to be connected with the World Federalists Group and I have no intention of going through with this "contest" as it is extremely distasteful to me to be auctioned off like a sack of potatoes to the man who can write the best letter of why he is not going to the dance. Furthermore, I am not "Miss Radeliffe...