THE speaking for the Boylston prizes next Thursday promises to be unusually interesting. The preliminary contest has reduced the number of speakers, so that the contest will not be wearisomely long, and special care has been taken to avoid the dull and hackneyed selections which have bored listeners in previous years. Much credit is due the instructors who have brought about this change, and have labored to make the contest something more than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest, and should attract more than a handful of listeners. In other colleges it has a dignity and importance which it must lack here as long as empty benches are the only audience and no one cares to know who wins. It is to be hoped that Sanders Theatre will this year be well filled, especially if the contest can be in the evening, when the examinations and other diversions of the day are ended, and men are at leisure.