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With the Boylston and Lee Wade speaking competition once again getting under way, the inadequacy of these prizes in stimulating and rewarding a genuine interest in public speaking becomes painfully apparent. For a contest that requires a mere verbal recitation of long memory passages hardly fits into the present day oratorical picture, when speakers and would-be speakers are most interested in developing their own ability to organize material and deliver it more or less extemporaneously. Clearly some change that would give value to the competition as an exercise in public speaking instead of a recital of other people...
Though past years have seen a let-up in the strict oratorical standards that once judged the contest, the competition still bears the hall-mark of the Daniel Webster era that engendered it. Of far more practical worth, however, would be prizes in public speaking. A striking witness to the value of drawing up one's own material and presenting it to an audience in direct and straightforward fashion is furnished by the hundred-odd undergraduates enrolled in various public speaking courses, and the many more that engage in debating from time to time. And it is for these...
Thus, to rescue the prizes from the limbo of mid-nineteenth century rhetoric, it is high time for University Hall to adapt the conditions under which the contest operates to the demands of modern times. For only by making the contest a competition in writing and delivering original material can the Lee Wade and Boylston awards proceed further in their purpose to stimulate and develop the ideal of effective public speaking in the college...
Carl Y. Antonellis '37, president of the Circolo Italiano, has announced the offering of a prize, based on a knowledge of Italian and Italian culture, to be awarded annually to any undergraduate of Radcliffe or Harvard. The contest will open every year soon after midyears and will continue until the first week in April...
Registration in the annual Lee Wade and Boylston Elocution Contest, long a traditional proving ground for aspiring Patrick Henrys, must be completed today by all applicants. Upperclassmen desirous of entering the contest must submit passages in English, Greek, or Latin to Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '29, assistant professor of Public Speaking...