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Praised by Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Oratory, who was in general charge of the contest, as one of the best that he had heard the speeches were marked by the variety of their subject-matter. The winning selections were excerpts from a letter of Robert Louis Stevenson and an essay on Shakespeare by George Lyman Kittredge, formerly Gurney Professor of English Literature here...
Five men have been selected to judge the competition, which is under the general supervision of Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Oratory. They are: Robert Bradford, Walter D. Edmonds '26, Wiliam C. Greene '11, associate professor of Greek and Latin, Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, and Mr. Edward A. Weeks...
Last day for entering the Boylston speaking contest will be February 23, Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, announced yesterday. Candidates are to register with Professor Hillyer in Adams B-11 by 5 o'clock of that...
Candidates are instructed to choose a piece of prose or poetry from English, Latin, or Greek Literature, and submit their choices to Professor Hillyer for approval. After registering an extension may be obtained in special cases...
...original and forceful. Technically modern, yet with a stability and poise which characterizes too little Advocate poetry, this piece achieves a balance between the verbose complexities of Dunstan Thompson and the simple triteness of Bruce Phemister whose poems also appear in this issue. Not to be forgotten is Robert Hillyer's "Fantasy," a bit of skillfully unimportant frou-frou, but delightful...