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Boylston Prize Declamation.

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The competition for the Boylston Prizes for Declamation will be held at Sanders Theatre at 7.30 o'clock this evening. The order of speakers is determined by lot. The programme will be as follows:

1, William Reed Bigelow, The Boston Kidnapping.- Theodore Parker. 2, William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Invective against Mr. Flood.- Henry Grattan. 3, Harry Edwin Burton, The Battle of Gettysburg. G. W. Curtis. 4, Asaph Swift Wicks, Against Secession.- Daniel Webster. 5, Charles Martin Thayer, The Ordinance of 1787.- G. F. Hoar. 6, William Loftus Monro, Anselmo, the Priest.- Mrs. Constance Runcie. 7, William Homer Warren, The Greek revolution.- Henry Clay. (Intermission of five minutes). 8, Clement Garnett Morgan, The Emancipation proclamation.- Carl Schurz. 9, Thornton Woodbury, The Memories of Middlesex.- Rufus Choate. 10, Robert John Cary, Toussaint L' Ouverture.- Wendell Phillips. 11, Charles Washington Luck, The Benediction.- Francois Foppee. 12, Herbert Henry Darling, Daniel O'Connell.- Wendell Phillips. 13, Isaac Levi Alder, Obedience to Law.

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