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.)