Eighteen out of the 46 candidates for the Boylston and Lee Wade Speaking Prizes survived the first elimination trial yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Each man recited a selection, about five minutes in length, before the following judges: W. S. Bowell, instructor in Public Speaking, Professor O. C. Lucy, head of the Department of Speech at the Oklahoma State Teachers' College, and F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking.

The men who have been approved by the judges to speak tomorrow at 2 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, for the selection of the finalists, are: G. H. Acheson '33, Robert Breckinridge '34, Lincoln Bryant, Jr. '33, A. J. DeVito '33, W. E. Esber '33, A. B. Gardiner, 3d '33, George Gore '34, H. G. Hutchinson '33, Herbert Kornbliet '35, V. H. Kramer '35, H. M. Lawn '34, A. K. L. Myers '34, S. M. Peyser '34, A. E. Phillips, Jr. '34, Leo Srole '33, D. M. Sullivan '33, C. W. Yungblut '34, and J. R. Yungblut '35. The judges who will narrow the field down to ten men, will be: R. W. Coues '95, instructor in English, R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, and G. H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English.