PACKARD ANNOUNCES LEE WADE COMPETITION

Candidates wishing to compete for the Boylsten and Lee Wade Public Speaking Prizes, must register on or before Monday. Entries may be made in Holden Chapel any day between classes or between 4 and 5 o'clock, Monday, February 24.

Competitors are asked to prepare a memorized selection between five and seven minutes in length, chosen from any work of standard literature, either prose of fiction. Although for quite a number of years all selections chosen have been in English, Greek or Latin passages are also acceptable.

Preliminary trials will be held Saturday, March 14. The best speakers will then be selected and will compete in the final trial, which will be open to the public, in the Music Building, Wednesday, March 25.

The Lee Wade Prize of $50 and the Boylston Prize of $50 will be awarded to the winners. Two prizes of $35 apiece will go to the runners-up. The Lee Wade Prize was established in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, whose name it bears, while the Boylston Prize, which will be awarded for the one hundred and eighteenth time this year, was founded by Ward Nicholas Boyleston in 1817 in honor of his uncle, who established the Boyleston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory.