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WADE - BOYLSTON WINNERS NAMED

Jones, Anastos, Meyer and Green are Victors -- Large Audience Attends Oratorical Contest

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Four men were awarded prizes last night at the finals of the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking contest held in Sanders Theatre. These winners were R. H. Jones '30, M. V. Anastos '30, H. G. Meyer '30, and Carlton Greene '30.

Jones was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of Edmund Rostand's "Selection from Cyrano de Bergerac." The Boylston award of $50 was presented to Anastos for his delivery in the original Latin of "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice", from the Fourth Georgie by Virgil. Meyer, reciting a selection from Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", and Greene, with Tennyson's "Ulysses", were awarded the two other Boylston prizes which had been announced as $30 each but which were yesterday increased to $35.

The other speakers in the contest last night and the subjects which they presented were as follows: R. H. Sharp '30 "Nine and Twenty in a Company", by Odell Shepard; J. L. Ware '30: "On the Cruiser Bill", House of Representatives. February 9, 1929, by Hop. George Huddleston; W. A. Fowlie '31; "Blue Symphony", by J. G. Fletcher; F. I. Kogos '29; "Boots", by Rudyard Kipling; E. J. Day '31; Ecclesiastes, Chapter XI and XII; F. F. Hart '30; A Tribute to Robert E. Lee", by Charles H. Brough.

The judges of the competition were Eliot Wadsworth '98, president of the Board of Overseers; M. A. DeW. Howe, and Joseph Lee '83, both members of the Board of Overseers; the Reverend S. A. Eliot '84, pastor of the Arlington Street Church; and E. K. Rand '94, Professor of Latin in the University.

A. E. French '29, who was to preside, was unable to do so, and his place was taken by F. C. Packard, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, who has been coaching the contestants.

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