Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...final contest for the Boylston Prizes takes place in the Sanders Theatre at two o'clock on the day before Class...
...preliminary contest for the Boylston Prizes will probably take place in Sanders Theatre, on the 12th or 13th of June. Mr. Riddle, Professor A. S. Hill, and some other gentlemen not yet selected are to act as judges...
...number of competitors for the Boylston Elocution prizes is so great that there is to be a preliminary contest on the 8th of June. Besides thinning the ranks, this plan will have the advantage of giving those who remain some idea of each other's powers. This is such an obvious improvement over the old method, that we wonder it has not been adopted before. Three or four years ago there were so many candidates that the Faculty decided to exclude Sophomores; perhaps they might now be allowed to compete; but if this does not seem advisable, we respectfully suggest...
...departure from the old order of conducting the speaking for the Boylston Prizes should not fail to secure a larger attendance at those exercises than ever before. It seems that there is to be a preliminary trial, and only those who come up to a required standard of excellence will be allowed to speak for the prizes. The number of speakers will thus be diminished at least one quarter from that of previous years; there will be this year, at the most, only thirty. It has always been a matter of regret that more have not thought it worth their...
...Chemistry 2, Boylston...