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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First prizes in the Boylston elocution contest were awarded to Tallman C. Bookhout '15, of Roxbury, N. Y., and Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, of London, England, as a result of the final round in Sanders Theatre last evening. Each speaker was given a prize of $30. The selections read by the winners were respectively, "Intervention With Cuba," by John M. Thurston, and "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes...
...sixth annual dinner of the Speakers' Club will be held in the club house this evening at 6.30 o'clock. At this meeting reports for the year will be read and the change of administration will take place. Members of the club and their guests are cordially invited. Plates for the dinner will be $1 each...
That the University, with many ambitious playwrights and capable actors, and courses in dramatic training fame of which is international, should have no adequate theatre, has long been a matter of comment and regret. It is therefore gratifying to read that definite steps are being taken to establish a modern theatre for the exclusive use of the University. English 47 has outgrown its Workshop and it deserves a new one, big enough to meet its needs. This valuable course has been too long handicapped by insufficient equipment. Better dramatic training and a greater scope will be certain results...
...have taken a prominent place in the current number of the Advocate. Mr. Mechem has written a comedy which is good enough to make us forget most of the time the absurdity of the situation. Mr. Moise has called this satire "In Memoriam." The title explains itself as we read how la Comtesse du Porc-Mouton presented one day to M. le President du College des Antiquites etudes Etudes Classiques a memorial library "to be fashioned after the Mausoleum at Helikarnassus or the Taj Mahat at Agra." Mr. Moise graphically explains the history of certain types of architecture...
Brown and Nichols--F. Jewett, F. P. Kendall, T. K. Read, R. Schussler, and G. A. Whittemore...