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Finalists in Boylston Contest Speak Tonight

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Finals in the 134th annual contest for the Boylston Speaking prizes will take place at 8 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall.

Speakers competing tonight are: J. David Bauman '52, Walter C. Carrington '52, William J. DeMuth, Jr. '53, R. J. Larkin '51, Marvin E. Mazie '52, Roger A. Moore '53, Donald C. Mork '52, Edward L. Snow '53, John J. Trudon '51, and E. Stuart Wells '51.

The winners' awards are two prizes of $50 each and three of $25 each. This year's competition drew 38 contestants from which tonight's finalists were chosen.

Judges for the contest include Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, the Reverend Mr. F. B. Kellogg D.D. '34, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. The honorary judge is Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus.

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