Announcement of the awarding of the Boylston Prizes for elocution was made yesterday by Dean Briggs: three second prizes of $20 each being given to Kassel Lewis '18, of New York, N. Y., William Hettleman '19, of Baltimore, Md., and James Conlan Scanlan '18, of Somerville. No first prizes were awarded because the judges agreed that the speaking was not of sufficiently high calibre.

In the speeches, which were delivered Thursday evening in Sever 11, the candidates were allowed to choose their own oration, if approved by Dean Briggs, the Boylston Professor. Lewis delivered Mark Antony's oration from "Julius Casar," Hettleman repeated "A Plea for Cuba," by John M. Thurston. "Abraham Lincoln's Declaration of Independence," given on February 22, 1861, was chosen by Scanlan.

The judges were: Dean Lawrence S. Mayo '10, chairman, Professor Frederick A. Manchester, of the University of Wisconsin, and Professor Frank M. Rarig, of the University of Minnesota.

The Boylston Prizes are awarded each Spring to Seniors and Juniors in the University from a fund given by Ward Nicholas Boylston of Boston, in 1817. There are two first prizes of $30 and two second prizes of $20, the first prizes being withheld if no one appears to deserve them.