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Leon S. Lipson '41, of Newton and Leverett House, and Philip Thayer '41, of Worcester and Winthrop House, carried off the first prizes in the Boylston Speaking Contest last night. Arsen E. Charles '42, David D. Henry '41, and Robert B. Nichols '41 were awarded the second places...
...ranged from excerpts out of Sir Walter Raleigh's "The History of the World" to a selection from John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." Lipson recited from "Statement to the Court on Being Convicted of Treason" by Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was hanged during the last war, and Thayer chose parts of Stephen Vincent Benet's "Notes to Be Left on a Cornerstone." Charles took selections from a speech of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., while Henry quoted a section of Melville's "Moby Dick." Nichols, the first speaker, used T. S. Eliot's poem, "Coriolan...
...content with once having incurred the wrath of the Doan's Office because of an interlude of orange fighting, the North entry of Thayer Hall has now purchased a supply of water pistols, and effectively entered the bad graces of the Yard cops...
Irked by the complaints of casual passers-by, threatening a raid on the entry, and mass confiscation of the weapons, the Yard cops now keep a close eye upon North Thayer, and look carefully at coats for suspicious bulges...
...finalists, in the order that they will speak, are: Robert B. Nichols '41, William H. Hughes, Jr. '41, John W. Sullivan '43, Philip Thayer '41, Arson E. Charles '42, David D. Henry '41, Leon S. Lyson '41, Harry Kupperstein '41, Richard L. Weinberg '43, and Stanley A. Freedman...