Word: waded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead hand of endowment has again brought to the fore the competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes for Elocution. To some thirty or forty men, that competition means a chance to recite some recognized literary gem in hopes of winning a cash prize. To all others who pay any attention to it, the Lee Wade and Boylston competition represents a revival of the old jade of elocution, strangely out of place in a modern college...
...declaim in measured tone, to weigh each gesture carefully, to poise and balance gracefully upon the stage may once have been the aims of public speaking, but they are relics of an era that considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with...
...competition for the Boylston and Lee Wade Prizes for Elocution will open with the first elimination contest on Wednesday afternoon, March 14, in Emerson D at one o'clock. Thirty-four men from the three upper classes will compete in this first elimination, in which their number will be halved...
...tape through which the various colonizers had to go to achieve their goal, while not overpoweringly interesting are a most interesting change from the usual tales of colonial, hardship in the new world. The various charters and companies which Raleigh, Sandys and others had to wade through before they finally could settle here give the layman a new view of colonial life, one which apparently has failed to catch enough interest in scholars who might have devoted a book...
...Boylston Prize is the third oldest in the University, having been founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in memory of his uncle, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, now held by Charles Townsend Copeland '32. The Lee Wade Prize was established in 1915 in honor of Lee Wade, II, of the Class...