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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamilton H. Wood; Head Usher, Bartow Kelley; Advertising and Finance, Walter H. Ridder; Refreshment Committee, Edmund S. Childs, Jr., John B. Lloyd; Orchestra, George O. Clark, Jr., Mason Fernald, Vinton Freedley, Jr., George S. Olive, Jr.; also Paul H. Bowdle, Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., Lloyd Mills, Jr., and Richard E. Webster...
...long interim between 1817 and the present, the art of clocution has declined far below the standard of men like Webster, Clay, Douglas, or Calhoun. In this descent toward mediocrity, the oratory prizes have stood out against the current like rocks in a stream, steadily maintaining their solid basis. They were washed over the blasts of rhetoric, by stultified, memorized arguments, but they remained fixed. Now, nurtured by Professor Packard's courses, and with the tremendous flowering of radio, which is based entirely on ear-appeal rather than the flourishing of arms, the true clocution which the prizes were founded...
Though past years have seen a let-up in the strict oratorical standards that once judged the contest, the competition still bears the hall-mark of the Daniel Webster era that engendered it. Of far more practical worth, however, would be prizes in public speaking. A striking witness to the value of drawing up one's own material and presenting it to an audience in direct and straightforward fashion is furnished by the hundred-odd undergraduates enrolled in various public speaking courses, and the many more that engage in debating from time to time. And it is for these...
...named were: William C. Coleman, Jr., of Kent School; John L. Donnell of Webster Groves High School; Thomas B. Healey of Worcester Academy; Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., of Milton Academy; James D. Light body of New Trier High School; and Douglas Mercer of Belmont Hill...
Stooge is defined on page 2,484 of Webster's New International Dictionary as "a foil, esp. for a comedian. Theatr. Slang...