The final trials for the Boylston prizes for elocution will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.30 o'clock. J. D. White '07 will introduce the speakers. The judges will be Rev. T. I. Gasson, president of Boston College, Professor F. J. Stimson '76, W. R. Castle, Jr., '00, J. F. Curtis '99, Hon. A. J. Peters '95, J. D. Greene '96, and H. Bancroft '97.
The order of speaking, which has been determined by lot, will be as follows: P. W. Saxton '08, "The New South," Grady; G. J. Hirsch '07, "The Faith of Mahomet," Carlyle; M. Allen '08, "Speech on General Amnesty," Schurz; A. R. Ellis '07, "Gunga Din," Kipling; H. Hurwitz '08, "Against Dismembering Mexico," Corwin; E. R. Brumley '07, "The Nomination of James G. Blaine at Cincinnati, 1876," Ingersoll; E. F. Tyson '07, "The Better Part," Washington; J. Adams, Jr., '08, "On the Irish Disturbance Bill," O'Connell; I. L. Sharfman '07, "The Puritan Principle: Liberty under the Law," Curtis; G. I. Lewis 08, "Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1896," Russell.
The trails ill be open to the public.
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