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T h e four contestants in the Junior Declamation contest presented their
selections to the assembled school in the study hall on March 2. The
coveted first prize in this contest, which is sponsored by the Class of
1914 in the memory of John Hubbard of that class, went to McClellan
Beaty, whose selection, The National Flag, by H. W. Beecher, was presented
with unusual ability. Eric Schwarz’s fine presentation of Henry W. Grady’s
The Home of the People won for him the second prize. Bruce Winter’s colorful
presentation of Andre and Hale, written by the late Chauncey Depew, and Free
Speech, an editorial from The Outlook, presented by Chase Sanderson deserve
much credit.
Convening in Alumni Hall on the following day, the School was treated to
an excellent group of declamations. For the second year the first prize money
in the Senior contest, sponsored by Alice A. Razee, Class of 1875, went to
Richard Merritt. His interpretation and presentation of Birches, by Robert
Frost, established him as perhaps the best speaker of recent years. The second
prize went to George Stead, who gave The National Emblem, with a style that
left little to be desired. Other contestants and their selections were as follows:
Wendell Phillips’ Toussaint L’Ouverture, Taylor Cotter; George W. Curtis’
The Puritan, Philip Kelsey; A. E. Pillsbury’s The Sense of Public Duty, Ronald
Norton; George W. Curtis’ Our Worst Foes, Laurence Smith; a selection from
John Masefield’s Dauber, Richard Scott; the last soliloquy in Marlowe’s Doctor
Faustus, William Myer. The presentations of William Myer and Richard Scott
received much praise. Praise should go to Mr. Paxton, whose able coaching was
greatly in evidence in both contests. Miss Kimberlin, Mr. Waughtel, and Mr.
Cate were the judges.

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