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In a public competition in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building, ton speakers will deliver orations for the Boylston and Lee Wade Prizes at 8 o'clock on Wednesday, March 30. The ten finalists have been chosen from a series of three elimination trials, the last of which was held Monday, Forty-Seven men reported at the first hearing.
W. B. Wood '32, first marshal of the Senior Class, will preside at the audition and the judges will be William Phillips '00, W. H. Wade '81, and Roger Wolcott '99, all overseers of the University.
Selections on Program
The program for the contest will be as follows: J. C. Wills '32. "The Congo" by Vachel Lindsay; D. M. Sullivan '33. The Forsaken Merman", by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates, from Plato's "Phaedo", translated by Banjami Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, selection from a speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, selection from "The Decline of the Drama", by Stephen Leacock.
Leo Srole '33 will deliver the Rector's lecture to the school boys on the eternity of hell from "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; Charles Sedgwick '34, "Mother and Poet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association", February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61; M. f. Lowenstein '32, the conclusion to "The Impeachment of Warren Hastings" by Edmund Burke.
Four prizes will be awarded by the judges; the Lee prize of $50 will go to the winner, the first Boylston prize of the same amount will go to the next man, while two Boylston prizes of $35 each will be awarded to those who place third and fourth.
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