The following-named is the list of competitors for the Boylston prizes, with the subjects for declamation :
JUNIORS.Edward Cummings, "Men will Awake." - [Victor Hugo.
Marshall Henry Cushing, "Ballad of the Revenge." - [Tennyson.
George Henry Heilbron, "Peaceable Secession" (7th March, 1850). - [Daniel Webster.
Benjamin Blake Holmes, "Influence of American Example." - [R. C. Winthrop.
Charles Joseph Hubbard, "The Scholar in a Republic." - [Wendell Phillips.
Augustus Mendon Lord, "Charles Sumner." [G. W. Curtis.
George Hyde Page, "Invective against Demosthenes." - [Aeschines.
Herbert Putnam, "Universal Suffrage." - [Victor Hugo.
Osgood Putnam, "Nihilism." - [Wendell Phillips.
SENIORS.Charles Townsend Copeland, "Clarence's Dream." - [Shakspere.
George Herbert Eaton, "The Worth of Symbols." - [F. W. Robertson.
Burton Monroe Firman, "Grit." - [E. P. Whipple.
Henry Winthrop Hardon, "The Situation in Ireland (1845). - [Macaulay.
Sherman Hoar, "The Downfall of Webster." [Theodore Parker.
Elliott Hunt Pendleton, "Speech of the Second Messenger (Oed. Tyr.). - [Sophocles.
George Chrystie Van Benthuysen, "Reply to John Randolph." - [Tristam Burgess.