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TWELVE RETAINED IN LEE WADE-BOYLSTON TRIALS

TEN WILL SPEAK IN FINALS ON APRIL 1

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Twelve men were retained in the Boylston and Lee Wade speaking contest after the preliminary trials at the Fogg Art Museum yesterday. There will be further elimination on Tuesday at four o'clock in the museum at which time ten men will be chosen to deliver their selections in the finals on April 1. Twenty-eight men delivered parts yesterday.

The men retained in the contest are W. S. Baskerville, Jr. '32, R. N. Clark Jr. '32, D. I. Cooke '31, D. B. Edmonton '32, R. S. Fitzgerald '33, H. C. Friend '31, A. B. Gardner, III '33, J. B. Gilbert '33, G. E. Lodgin '32, P. C. Reardon '32, J. J. Ryan, Jr. '33, D. M. Sullivan '33.

The Lee Wade prize of $50 and the Boylston prize of $50 will be awarded to the two winners, while two $35 awards, both part of the Boylston prizes, will go to the runners-up. The Lee Wade prize was established in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade, in memory of his son, after whom the prize is named. The Boylston prize, which will be awarded for the one hundred and thirteenth time this year, was founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory.

The judges in the contest are W. D. Copeland, visiting instructor in English, W. S. Howell, instructor in public Speaking, and F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking.

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