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BOYLSTON SPEAKING.

Eleven Men Will Compete Tonight at the Final Trial.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

The final competition for the Boylston prizes for elocution will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The eleven men who were retained at the trial last Saturday will speak in the following order:

1. H. W. Palmer '01, "Patridge at the Play," Henry Fielding.

2. W. Morse '00, "Soldier's Field Oration," Major F. L. Higginson.

3. T. H. Reid '01, "Reply to Beveridge," Senator Hoar.

4. H. J. Davenport '00, "Cyrano's Theory of Life," E. Rostand.

5. W. S. Heilborn '01, "The Man with the Hoe," E. Markham.

6. H. W. Ballentine '01, "The United States in the Far East," Senator Lodge.

7. S. J. Kornhauser '01, "President McKinley's Policy in the Philippines," Senator Lodge.

8. H. A. Yeomans '00, "Napoleon the Little," Victor Hugo.

9. J. R. Locke '01, "My Lord Carnal and I play at Bowls," Mary Johnston.

10. G. A. Towns '00, "Wendell Phillips as an Orator," G. W. Curtis.

11. W. Catchings '01, "The Race Problem," Henry W. Grady.

There are two first prizes offered of sixty dollars each and three second prizes of forty-five dollars each. The first prizes may be withheld if none of the competitors appear to deserve them. No prompting of speakers is allowed; a failure of memory will exclude a competitor from consideration in the allotment.

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