Competitions for All Boards Commence Tonight With Outline of Duties and Display of Building

The cmpetitions for all Boards begins at seven-thirty tonight. Articles describing the advantages of the Editorial, Photographic, and Business Boards have already been published. This article describes some of the opportunities offered by the News Board's competition.

Competition for the News Board of the CRIMSON is open to all Freshmen. Competitors will have a chance to report the varied athletic calendar of the winter season, covering such sports as Hockey, Basketball, Swimming Squash, and Polo. They will be able to peer over the shoulders of the College's scientists in their laboratories as new developments occur. They will follow the progress in widely diverse fields of endeavor, from the powerful telescope of the Astronomical Observatory to the flying field activities of Aerial Photography.

From the Inside Out

The candidate will come to know the inner workings of the College's many departments. He will learn that Peabody Museum still treasures a mermaid that was once the possession of the great Barnum. He will discover, if he can, why the Fogg Art Museum is going to sponsor a performance of "Murder In The Cathedral", and what possible relation this-may bear to the recently published "Harvard Has A Homicide". He will view the dim recesses of University Hall where student's lives are made and broken.

On The Trail

The candidate will search out feature material, he will follow the scent that leads to strange places. He may tread close on Colonel Apted's heels as that doughty warrior sets out in pursuit of another skunk. Perhaps the opportunity of seeing the Lampoon's funnymen laying a hoax will come his way. He may see the way a police court functions, or follow the Fire Department in action. He may find that much of the imposing marble statuary that decorates Memorial Hall has come only recently from the graves of men portrayed, in the Mount Auburn Cemetery.

How To Write

In writing, the candidate's literary style, if he has one, will be worked and reworked until it attains a polish worthy of newsprint. He will be trained to be concise, clear, strong in his handling of a news story, slyly humorous in the treatment of feature material. He will learn the ways of organizing material. All these things will be of invaluable help to him if good writing is to play a part in his future life.

Salaries

There are several positions open to the successful candidates in this competion. All editors are paid salaries. CRIMSON men of the past have made their mark in the world, due no doubt to valuable experience gained while on the paper. CRIMSON men of today know more about what goes on at the College than any others.

Former Editors

Some of the well known men who were CRIMSON editors are: Thomas W. Lamont '92, Jerome D. Greene '96, Henry James '99, Robert J. Bucklye '02, Joseph Clark Grew '02, Arthur A. Ballantine '04, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Hanford MacNider '11, Arthur Sweetser '12, James B. Conant '14, Edward A. Whitney '17, Rupert Emerson '22, and Corliss Lamont '24.