A DISREGARDED OPPORTUNITY.

The Dramatic Club's sixteenth play competition, open to undergraduates and recent graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe, ended last week. A definite attempt to arouse other than graduate interest in play-writing was made. Yet of the plays submitted, fifty per cent. were written by students at Radcliffe, and not half the manuscripts handed in from the University were the work of undergraduates. This situation is more significant following on the award of the Craig Prize to a Radcliffe student. If budding dramatists do not exist in the College nothing can be said; but assuming there are men of latent writing ability, it is blindness for them not to take part. Such contests offer a sort of laboratory work in practical play-writing, and should be made vital and successful, as well as enjoyable, part of the dramatic student's work.