Robert A. Brooks '40 outspoke nine other finalists to become Boylston Prize Orator last night in the annual contest at Paine Hall. Delivering the Apology of Socrates in the original Greek, Brooks, a Lowell House resident, was awarded a first prize of $50 in the ancient competition which dates from 1817.

Second prizes of $35 each went to Jame J. Pattee, Jr. '41 of Winthrop House, and John B. Fisher '41 of Lowell House. Fisher chose Lincoln's "Second Inaugural Address," while Pattee's selection was Clarence Darrow's "Defense of Loeb and Leopold."

Others who spoke were Stanley O. Beren '41, giving Ingersoll's "Plumed Knight"; Allan B. Ecker '41, Roosevelt's "Road to Peace"; Jonas N. Muller '40, Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"; Howard Nemerov '41, Yeats' selected poems; Elliot L. Richardson '41, excerpts from "Ecclesiastes"; John W. Sever '40, Whitman's "Song of Myself"; and Richard B. Wolf '41, Emerson's "American Scholar."

Judging were Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and William C. Greene '11, associate professor of Greek and Latin. Visiting judges were Stuart Montgomery '08 and Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22, both of Boston.