FINALS OF BOYLSTON SPEAKING PRIZE HELD

Winners of the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking prized held last night in the Music Building were H. Lane Blackwell '39, and H. Rushton Harwood, Jr. '39, with Rennselaer Whittier '39 and Bernard Rivin 40 taking the second place Boylston Prizes.

Presiding at the meeting was Robert L. Green '39 acting in his position as Second Marshal while Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus served as usual in his position as honorary judge. The judges were Mr. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Mr. William James and Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman collection of contemporary journalism

Harwood Uses "After Munich"

Harwood used as his passage "After Munich", from Neville Chamberlain's September speech, while Blackwell delivered excerpts from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body." "Patterns of Survival" by John H. Bradley was Whittier's passage and Thomas a Becket's Christmas Sermon as rendered by T. S. Eliot '10 in his "Murder in the Cathedral" was chosen by Bernard Rivin.

Other competitors in the field included Stanley O. Beren '41, Edward Gabriel Greenberg '41, Leon Samuel Lipson '41, John N. Mullor '40, James J. Pattee '41 and Robert Henry Ryan '41, all of whom earned their place in the finals as a result of two elimination round held during the past two weeks.

Next year the Lee Wade prize of $50 will be given to the Debating Council to be awarded to one of the best speakers in the annual H-Y-P debate. For this year the Corporation has voted to give the prize both to one of the winners in the speaking contest and to a high man in the Triangular Debate.