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Competitors for the Boylston Prizes for Declamation.

SANDERS THEATRE, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1887, at 7.30 P.M.

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[The order of speakers in determined by lot.]

1. - Livingston Boyd Stedman, "The Coercion of Ireland." - Sir W. Vernon Harcourt (1887).

2. - Nathan Oppenheim, "The Sisters." - Tennyson.

3. - Francis Wallace Knowles, "The Pilot's Story." - W. D. Howells.

4. - Wilton Lincoln Currier, "The Minute Man of '75." - G. W. Curtis (1875).

5. - Robert Treadwell Osgood, "Conservative Progress." - Edward Everett (1852).

INTERMISSION OF FIVE MINUTES.6. - Winthrop Tisdale Talbot, "John Harvard." - Edward Everett (1828).

7. - John Daniel Barry. "The Lament of OEdipus." - Sophocles.

8. - Herman Page, "The Slave Rebellion of San Domingo." - Wendell Phillips.

9. - Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany, "A Message from the New South." - Henry W. Grady (1886).

10. - James Houghton Woods, "The Irish Question." - W. F. Gladstone (1886).

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