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Historic Boylston Oratory Contest Starts in March

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Competition for the College's traditional Boylston Prize for public speaking gets under way in March, the English Department announced yesterday.

Preliminary tryouts will be conducted March 15 in New Lecture Hall when Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, and Oratory, and Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, pick about eight or ten finalists.

Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, and Mark D. W. Howe '28, professor of Law, will judge the finals on March 29.

Applications Due February 23

Candidates for the contest must fill applications with Professor Spencer in Warren House 3 by February 23. Declamations may be taken from English, Latin, or Greek prose or poetry.

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will again be the honorary judge of the contest.

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