BALDWIN PRIZE SUBJECT NAMED

The council of the National Municipal League has selected for next year's competition for the William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 the subject, "A Critical Study of the Sources of Municipal Revenue, in any City with a Population exceeding 50,000." This competition is open to all undergraduate students registered in a regular course in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in municipal government. The essays must not exceed 10,000 words and must be typewritten in duplicate and both copies mailed or delivered to an express company not later than March 15, 1915, addressed to Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Secretary of the National Municipal League, North American Building, Philadelphia, Pa., and marked "For the William H. Baldwin Prize." Competitors will mark each paper with a pseudonym and enclose in a sealed envelope the full name, address, class and college, corresponding to such pseudonym.

Professor Howard L. McBain, of Columbia University, and Mr. H. J. Haskell, Editor of "The Star," Kansas City, Mo., acting as judges for the 1914 competition awarded the prize to Miss Sybel Edelweiss Loughead, of Radcliffe, and honorable mention was made of the essay submitted by Thomas D. Dyer, of Leland Stanford, Jr., University.