Word: waded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax of the revue is the performance of Lottic Mayer's Diving Beauties, who first wade into a tank, where they disappear, and then emerge to give a diving exhibition. The woman sitting in front of us reviewed it by gasping, "Oh, ain't it beautifull...
...Boylston and Lee Wade speaking contests tonight represent a revival of the lost art of election, long out of place in the American college, relic of an era that cared less for what was said than for how it was said...
...Boylston and Lee Wade prizes encourage the style rather than the substance of public speaking, slighting the far more important art of public thinking. If, instead of an old-fashioned elocution contest, they provide for an equally old-fashioned but still valuable oratorial contest, they would continue to foster interest in public speaking and great orations, and would also stimulate creative undergraduate expression. Carefully worked-out orations on literary, social, and political problems, delivered in conversational rather than declamatory style, would confer far more lasting benefit on competitors than the mere memorizing of another author's work, no matter...
Competing for the Boylston and Lee Wade Prizes for Elocution, ten finalists will speak in Paine Hall of the Harvard Music Building on Wednesday at eight o'clock. The program of the evening, including the final order of the speakers and the subjects on which they are to speak, has been announced by Frederick C. Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
Eliminations for the Boylston and Lee Wade Prizes for Elocution were held in Emerson D yesterday afternoon, commencing at 1 o'clock. The thirtyfour contestants were judged by Robin S. Hillyer '17, associate Professor of English; Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English; Frederic C. Packard '20, assistant professor Public Speaking; Robert W. Coues '95, instructor in English; and Norman W. Mattis, instructor in Public Speaking...