Boylston Finalists Named For Speaking Competition

Robert S. Hillyer '17 Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday announced the names of the ten finalists competing for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution. The finals of the contest will be held at 8 o'clock on March 27 in the Paine Music Hall.

The fianalists are, in the order of speaking: James J. Pattee, Jr. '41, Allan B. Ecker '41, Howard Nemerov '41, John W. Sever '40, John B. Fisher '41, Robert A. Brooks '40, Elliot L. Richardson '41, Stanley O. Beren '41, Jonas N. Muller '40, and Richard B. Wolf '41.

With Thomas V. Healey, first marshal, presiding, the judges will be Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, William Chase Greene '11, associate professor of Greek and Latin, Stuart Montgomery '08, and Edward Augustus Weeks, Jr. '22.