Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drifted down Boylston Street as couples passed him, striding onward to the stadium so as not to miss the kickoff. His stares were mostly answered with could looks, but one girl, who was in his Slavic section, smiled gaily as she passed by with her date...
...Game is a week from Saturday, and it is time for students to pick their own kampus kuties. It is also time to deliver their ticket applications to 60 Boylston St., since those who do not do so by 5 p.m. this afternoon may find themselves with kuties but no seats...
Such technical developments in language instruction will be spurred when Boylston Hall is renovated for use of the language departments...
Harvard achieved early dominance in the teaching of public speaking in the United States. The first speech professorship in this country, the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, was created here in the early Nineteenth Century. After a distinguished beginning, speech training fell into academic disrepute among American colleges. This loss of prestige was caused by the rise of the "elocutionary movement," which stressed speech delivery and overlooked content...
...last half century, while speech has elsewhere become a much more formidable academic discipline, Harvard's original dislike for the "elocutionary movement" remains unchanged by contemporary circumstances. The current Boylston Professor, Archibald MacLeish, is a poet, a situation reflecting Harvard's current lack of interest in speech training. Even though Professor MacLeish has expressed his support for greater teaching of the speech arts, the University's speech training is conducted in a sadly limited manner...