Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selection of the ten men who are to be finalists in the speaking contests for the Boylston and Lee Wade prizes was made Saturday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. These men were picked from a group of 18, who survived a previous elimination trial on Thursday, and will speak in the finals, which are to be held on Wednesday, March 29, at 8 o'clock in Paine Hall, and are open to the public. The judges in Saturday's elimination were R. W. Coues '95, instructor in English, R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English...
Eighteen out of the 46 candidates for the Boylston and Lee Wade Speaking Prizes survived the first elimination trial yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Each man recited a selection, about five minutes in length, before the following judges: W. S. Bowell, instructor in Public Speaking, Professor O. C. Lucy, head of the Department of Speech at the Oklahoma State Teachers' College, and F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
Announcement of the 46 men who will compete Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall for the Boylston and Wade speaking prizes, was made last night by F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking. Each candidate will recite a selection, about five minutes in length, taken from contemporary prose. Packard expects to select the ten men who will compete in the finals from the trials. It has not been decided when the finals will be held...
...Several pronunciations of Jehol are equally permissible. The "J" is pronounced either like R in ran or like the French J in jour. The "L" is silent in China proper, is sounded by Manchurians. According to the standard "Wade System" of rendering phonetics into English, Jehol is pronounced "Ruh-huh" and Manchukuo is pronounced "Mahndrowgwoh...
...Council conspicuously lacks the support of the undergraduate body. This is not so much the fault of the Council as of the undergraduates, who fail to realize their lamentable deficiency in public speaking, always so clearly revealed when the First Marshal rises to act as chairman of the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize Speaking Contests...