LOEWENSTEIN AND SEDGWICK WINNERS IN SPEAKING TEST

M. F. Loewenstein '32 was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 as winner of the Boylston and Loe Wade prize speaking contest held in the Music Building last night. Charles Sedgwick '34 won the first Boylston prize of the same amount, while Leo Srole '33 and J. C. Willis '32 received the two other Boylston awards.

In announcing the winners, Roger Wolcott '99, chairman of the judging committee, whose other members were W. H. Wade '81 and William Phillips '00, said that the competitors were evenly contested. The judges deliberated 15 minutes before announcing their decision.

Loewenstein's winning oration was the conclusion to "The Impeachment of Warren Hastings" by Edmund Burke, while Sedgwick gave "Mother and Poet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Srole and Willis delivered the Rector's lecture to the schoolboys on the eternity of hell, from James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and "The Congo" by Vachel Lindsay, respectively.

In commenting on the contest, F. C. Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking, who is in charge of the awards, said "The most noteworthy thing connected with the contest was the interest shown by the large audience. The John Knowles Paine Hall was filled nearly to capacity, a record attendance for this competition."

The other speakers who took part in last night's audition, with their orations, were: D. M. Sullivan '33. "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, "The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; and A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association," February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61.