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BOYLSTON SPEAKING TONIGHT.

Final Trial of Twelve Candidates in Sanders Theatre at 7.30.

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The final trial in the contest for the Boylston prizes in elocution will take place in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.30. The twelve men retained at the first trial will speak in the following order:

1. J. G. Cole '01, "Bandinello's Statue of Hercules and Cacus," Benvenuto Cellini.

2. H. W. Palmer '01, "Boggs and the Colonel," Mark Twain.

3. V. J. Lamb '02, "The Crankiness of the Puritan," Chauncey M. Depew.

4. P. W. Thomson '02, "The Benediction," F. Coppee.

5. A. E. Minard '01, "The Rescue of Lygia in the Arena" Sienkiewicz.

6. C. P. McCarthy '02, "The Storm" (David Copperfield) Dickens.

7. W. D. Carleton '02, "The Use and Abuse of Property," Theodore Roosevelt.

8. S. S. Drury '01, "Up at a Villa, Down in the City." (As distinguished by an Italian person of quality.) Robert Browning.

9. I. Grossman '02, "On the Irish Disturbances Bill," Daniel 'O'Connell.

10. J. H. Holmes '02, "The Death of Lincoln," Phillips Brooks.

11. E. C. Stern '01, "Ideas, the Life of a People," George William Curtis.

12. R. Bishop '01, A Speech to the Harvard Alumni in 1898, Booker T. Washington.

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