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Boylston Prize Speaking Tonight.

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The final contest for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. The speaking will be open to the public. Five prizes will be awarded: two first prizes of $60 each, and three second prizes of $45 each. The men retained at the preliminary trial will speak in the following order:

1. S. A. Welldon '04, "Rawdon Crawley and Lord Steyne"-W. M. Thackeray.

2. H. S. Deming '05, "Daniel O'Connell"-Wendell Phillips '31.

3. R. K. Conant '05, "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig"-Charles Lamb.

4. C. A. Legg '04, "Defence of Admiral Schley"-Isidor Rayner.

5. J. H. Weil '05, "Plea for Old South Church"-Wendell Phillips '31.

6. S. J. Gilman '04, "Our Black Allies"-William McKinley.

7. H. P. Johnson '05, "Reply to Douglass"-Abraham Lincoln.

8. F. J. O'Connor '04, "Speech at Cincinnati"-R. G. Ingersoll.

9. H. W. Bennett '05, Death Scene from "Enoch Arden"-Alfred Tennyson.

10. A. Tyng '05, "Spirit of Puritanism"-G. W. Curtis h.'81.

11. A. A. Ballantine '04, "On the Irish Disturbance Bill"-Daniel O'Connell.

The following will act as judges: Hon. Curtis Guild '81, Hon. Augustine J. Daly, President W. E. Huntington, Hon. F. C. Lowell '76, Professor B. S. Hurlbut '87, Mr. J. F. Rhodes, Mr. A. I. Fiske '69. Mr. W. R. Thayer '81, Professor E. C. Moore. Mr. J. G. Hart '93.

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