Boylston Preliminary Speeches.

The preliminary trials to select speakers for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution will be held in Sanders Theatre at 9 o'clock, this morning. Professor Baker, Professor Ropes, and Mr. George Riddle will act as judges. The men will speak in alphabetical order and, if the quality of the speaking warrants it, about fifteen men will be retained for the final contest on Thursday, May 14. Five prizes will be given, two first prizes of $60 each and three second prizes of $40 each.

The list of speakers at the preliminary trial, in order of speaking, is as follows:

G. P. Adams, '03, "The Everlasting No," Carlyle; R. R. Alexander '04, "Appeal for Dreyfus," Zola; E. W. Baker '04, "The Orator's cause," J. D. Wright; A. A. Ballantine '04, "The Southern Negro," H. W. Grady; P. Bancroft '03, "Lasca," F. Desprez; O. L. Bear '03, "Death of Jeanne d'Arc," Duruy," G. Bettman '03, "National Duties," Roosevelt; R. M. Bowen '03, "National Monument to Washington," R. C. Winthrop; S. Blaikie '03, "Address to New Hampshire Veterans," Roosevelt; W. R. Bowle '04, "The Revenge," Tennyson; H. J. Carleton '03, "The Negro Question," Cleveland; F. W. Catlett '04, "Commencements," Sarah W. Kellog; L. R. Clapp '03, "Eulogy on Henry Ward Beacher," J. Parker; N. W. Edson '03, "John Marshall," O. W. Holmes, Jr.; R. Ernst '03, "Progress by Sacrifice," C. Guild, Jr.; O. G. Frantz '03, "Defence of the Declaration of Independence," Hoar; G. D. Frost '04; "The Rising in 1776," T. B. Read; E. H. Furman '04, "Ballad of the East and West," Kipling; W. P. Grant '04, "Cooper Institute Speech," Lincoln: F. I. Haber, '03, "The Bivouae of the Dead" T. O. Hara; M. Hale '03, "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt; R. T. Henshaw '04, "The Resene of Esmeralda," Huggy P. Hill '03, "The Liberties of Ireland." R. Grattan; G. W. Hinckley '03, "Clive," R. Browning: F. Holdsworth '04, "The Southern Negro," H. W. Grady; R. C. Johnson '04, "A vision of War," Ingersoll; E. C. Kerans '04, "Centralisation in the United States," H. W. Grady;W. C. Keough '04, "The South and her Problems," H. W. Grady; C. G. Loring, jr., '08, "The Isle of Voices," Stevenson; R. LuV. Lyman '03; "The Storming of Mission Ridge," B. F. Taylor; J. A. McGilvrey '03, "Centralization in the United States," H. W. Grady; J. J. Mahoney'03, "The Orator's Cause," J. D. Wright; D. C. Manning'04, "Address on Woman," Depew; H. A. Meyer '04, "Tom Brown and Captain Hardy," T. Hughes; B. A.Miller '04, "Idols," Phillips, W. H. Nelson '04, Section from "Speech on the Philippines," Jhoar; F. h. Osgood '04, "The Charge against Verres," Cicero; T. Perry '03, "Characteristics of Washington," Mckinley; E. M. Rabenold '04, "The New South," H. W. Grady; T. D. Roberts '03, "Coeur de Lion at the Bier of his Father;" C. C. Scheffy '03, "Inaugural Address," Arthur; L. E. Swarts '03, "The Republic Never Retreats," A. J. Beveridge; S. Thurman '03, "Defense of Dreyfus," Zola; V. A. Tsanoff '04, "Ireland's Part in English Achievement," R. Shell; S. A. Welldon 'o4, "Henry Esmond and the Pretender," Thackeray, J. D. Williams '03, "An Incident in the Cuban Revolution," Davis.