The final competition for the Boylston Prizes in declamation was held last night in Sanders Theatre. The prizes are five in number, two first prizes of sixty dollars each and three second of forty-five dollars each.

Thirteen men, who were chosen at the preliminary competition last Saturday, spoke. The contest was unusually close and interesting and the judges were out for over half and hour before they announced that first prizes had been awarded to Clifford Fyffe Greegg '96, and Frank Rudolph Steward '96, and second prizes to Raphael Clarke Thomas '96, Arthur Cheney Train '96, and Henry Barrett Huntington '97.

The speakers and their subjects were:

1. Frank Rudolph Steward, "Argument in Waddill vs. Wise," F. T. Greenhalge.

2. Arthur Harold Hahlo, "The Sisters," Tennyson.

3. William Taylor Burwell Williams, "The Puritar Principle," G. W. Curtis.

4. Arthur Alexis Bryant, "The Murder of Lovejoy," Wendell Phillips.

5. Sinclair Kennedy, "The Gift of the Sea," Rudyard Kipling.

6. Charles Dickinson, "Progress of the Negro Race," Booker Washington.

7. Joseph Parker Warren, "Eulogy on Sheridan," Charles Devens.

Intermission of five minutes.

8. Raphael Clarke Thomas, "A Charge for France," John Heard, Jr.

9. Henry Barrett Huntington, "Harvard College in the War," O. W. Holmes, Jr.

10. Joseph Potter Cotton, Jr., "From the 'Commemoration Ode,'" J. R. Lowell.

11. Clifford Fyffe Gregg, "The Venezuela Resolution," E. O. Wolcott.

12. Rufus Bates Sprague, "Massachusetts," H. C. Lodge.

13. Arthur Cheney Train, "The Law." O. W. Holmes, Jr.

The judges were: From the Corporation, Samuel Hoar, Esq., and Arthur T. Cabot; from the Overseers, Arthur T. Lyman, Esq., and Charles Francis Adams, Esq.; Rev. Philip Moxom, Judge F. G. Fesseden, Edward P. Clark, Esq., Professor L. B. R. Briggs, Hon. Josiah Quincy, and George Rublee, Esq.