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...this years series of free public lectures sponsored by the Lowell Institute to be given in the lecture room of the Boston Public Library, Bernard DeVoto and Carl J. Friedrich will be among the three speakers scheduled...
...first prizes of $35 each, and three second awards of $25 each were given by the five judges. Bernard DeVoto '20 was the spokesman for the group, which included R. Ammi Cutter '22, Robert Frost '99, David McCord '21, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16. Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, managed the competition. Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, was the honorary judge, while Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, first marshal of the Senior Class, presided over the meeting...
Judging the contest will be R. Ammi Cutter '22, Bernard DeVoto '20. Robert Frost '99, David McCord '21, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16. Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, who conducted the competitions regularly until his retirement in 1928, will be the honorary judge...
MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION-Edited by Bernard DeVoto-Harper...
Less chucklesome are Twain's forebodings about the inevitable collapse of U. S. democracy into monarchy (today, says DeVoto, Twain would say dictatorship). "Rome's liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor...