  This paper describes spectra of quasar candidates acquired during the
commissioning phase of the Low-Resolution Spectrograph of the Hobby-Eberly
Telescope. The objects were identified as possible quasars from multicolor
image data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The ten sources had typical r'
magnitudes of 19-20, except for one extremely red object with r' of
approximately 23. The data, obtained with exposure times between 10 and 25
minutes, reveal that the spectra of four candidates are essentially featureless
and are not quasars, five are quasars with redshifts between 2.92 and 4.15
(including one Broad Absorption Line quasar), and the red source is a very late
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