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Programme of the Boylston Prize Speaking.
Sanders Theatre, Thursday, May 10, 1888, at 7.30 p. m.
[The order of speakers is determined by lot.]
1. ELMER ELLSWORTH SHOEMA KER."The True Use of Wealth." -Ruskin.
2. FRANCIS WALLACE KNOWLES."King Robert of Sicily." -Longfellow.
3. EDWARD CRAIG BATES."Wendell Phillip's First Speech in Faneuil Hall." -G. W. Curtis (1884).
4. RUSSELL DUANE."The Struggle in America." -John Bright (1863).
5. GURDON SALTONSTALL HOWE."Shall Kentucky Secede?" -Joseph A. Holt (1861).
6. CHARLES FRIEND."The Downfall of Webster." -Theodore Parker (1852).
Intermission of five minutes.
7. ROWLAND BLENNERHASSETT MAHANY."The Meaning of the French Revolution." -Lamartine.
8. WILLIAM FRANCIS RICHARDS."The Royal Bowman." -Maurice Thompson.
9. JAMES HARDY ROPES."Eulogy on Wendell Phillips." -G. W. Curtis (1884).
10. EZRA RIPLEY THAYER."Harvard in the Civil War." -James Walker (1862).
11. JOHN DANIEL BARRY."The Slaying of Laius." -Sophocles.
12. WILLIAM BARNES."The Unveiling of the Puritan Statue in Central Park." -G. W. Curtis (1885.)
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