Ten of the University's leading student orators will compete tonight in Paine Hall at 8 o'clock for the Boylston Speaking Prizes.
The speakers, who were chosen two weeks ago, will be: William P. D. Bailey '46, Lawrence Creshkoff '46, Michael D. Dawson '46, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Edward R. W. Franklin '47, Stephen J. Gilman, Jr. '44, Paul C. Richter '46, Henry P. Robbins '48, and Paul L. Wright '49.
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, has been named an honorary judge of the contest. The other judges will be: Harvey H. Bundy, former special assistant to the Secretary of War; Charles P. Curtis, Jr. '13, co-editor of "The Practical Cogitator"; Thomas H. Eliot '28, former Congressman from Massachusetts; and Judge Calvert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.
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