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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Would it not be to the benefit of the students at large, and a stimulus to the seniors in particular, if hereafter all commencement parts were read in public instead of before a committee? Out of twenty-five who read their parts but about six are to be chosen to read them on Commencement Day. Many of those who are not of "the chosen few" had very able productions, well worth the hearing for the careful study which they showed and for the candor and liberality of their views. Moreover we think it a very different thing to read before a set of critical judges and before an audience who perhaps are prepossessed in favor of the speaker. Many whom the cold eyes of the judges would disconcert would be roused to their best efforts by an audience of fellow students. Would not this method be more beneficial than the present one?

J.