BOYLSTON PRIZE SPEAKING.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- There is a good deal of unfavorable comment in the college at large upon the fact that one of the judges in the preliminary contest of the Boylston Prize Speaking had received considerable sums of money for tutoring some of the competitors. In such cases it is almost impossible that a judge should not be prejudiced in favor of one in whom he felt a personal interest, whom he had himself drilled, and who reflected his own ideas of oratory. He is to a great extent sitting in judgment upon his own tastes and opinions. Without making any personal reflections whatever, it is surely a bad principle, when so many disinterested judges can be found, to appoint one who has a monetary interest in the success of certain of the competitors. Lest it seem that I feel personally aggrieved, I may state that I was not, and had no thought of being one of the contestants. But as a matter of simple fair play, the board of judges ought hereafter to be differently constituted.

A. M. CUMMINGS.