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The Rotch Scholarship.

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The award of the Rotch travelling scholarship, the conditions of which were described recently in the CRIMSON, will probably be announced this week, as the designs are in the hands of the awarding committee. The subject chosen for competition was a plan of "A Casino for Baths," to be situated upon the new Charles River embankment. The casino, by the stipulation, was to be amply provided with plain and medicinal baths, and in addition to these were to be a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a tennis court, a reading room, a billiard room and cafe. On the bank of the river there was the be a boat house, and two or three parilions. The grounds were to be laid out in an attractive a way as possible.

One gallery in the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts will be used for a permanent exhibition of architectural drawings of which the designs submitted in this competition will form a part.

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