The judges chosen by Professor L. S. Mayer, director of the Men’s Glee Club, were George B. Nevin, director of music and composer of sacred songs, Easton, Pennsylvania; Harry Alan Russell, composer and organist, New York City; and Nathaniel Irving Hyatt, master (later, dean of music), Converse College and composer for Ditson Company, music publishers in Spartanburg, South Carolina.