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Competition for the Boylston Prize of Public Speaking will get underway in March, the English Department announced yesterday, as it released tentative plans for the annual contest...
Honorary judge of the contest will be Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus. The other judges will be announced later. Two first prizes of $50 and three second prizes of $25 will be awarded...
Candidates for the contest must file applications with Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, before February 27 at Warren House, giving the name of the selection which will be offered. Declamations may be taken from English, Latin, or Greek prose or poetry, and may not exceed seven minutes. The judges' decision will be taken from English, Latin, or Greek ject matter, Spencer said...
...prize-winning authoress of the 'Cliffe's annual Christmas story contest will be named by President Jordan...
Everything works out nicely--both dogs win the big contest (in alternate years, of course); both are suspected of sheep slaughter and almost got their heads blown off by an aroused peasantry. Peggy Ann Garner and Lon McAllister are tossed in as a casual and extraneous pair of callow lovers, and take up some of non-doggy footage. But, unless you're one of that strange breed that dotes on animal pictures. "Thunder in the Valley" is hardly worth the trip downtown...