Creshkoff and Gilman Share Oratory Prize

Lawrence Creshkoff '46 and Stephen J. Gilman '44, reciting selections from two modern poets, won the Boylston. Speaking Prizes last night in Paine Hall. Robert L. Fischelis '50, Edward R. W. Franklin '47, and Durham M. Miller '47 finished in second place.

Creshkoff's rendition of two selections from the works of T. S. Eliot was delivered with feeling. "The Hollow Man," his first choice, was adapted to his voice, and in both this and "Journey of the Magi" he showed fine handling of a piece requiring careful interpretation.

Gilman Reads Benet Piece

Gilman chose for his reading a passage from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body," Projecting himself admirably into the part of Abraham Lincoln, he managed to put across effectively a restrained, yet highly emotional selection.

Fischelis read Thomas Wolfe's Farewell Letter to Foxhall Edwards, from "You Can't Go Home Again," an evenly paced, compelling piece of prose. Franklin chose for his selection Robert Emmet's "Protest Against Sentence as a Traitor," a strongly-worded denunciation of the prejudice and ignorance of the convicting judges, Miller recited "The Spirit of Liberty," a speech by Judge Learned Hand '93 on the ocassion of a naturalization ceremony.

Judge Calvert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court, announcing the decisions, stated that the judges "might well have awarded ten prizes instead of two," so close was the competition.