PRIZES OFFERED TO YOUNG JOURNALISTS

Announcement has just been made that cash prizes amounting to $210 will be awarded to the authors of the best editorials published in college journals during the academic year 1927-28. The competition is being sponsored by the Honorary Collegiate Journalism fraternity, Pi Delta Epsilon, and will be directed by Dean H. G. Doyle '11 of George Washington University, Washington, D. C. The contest is divided into two divisions. The first, which is open to all members of any college journal, offers five prizes. The second is open to members of the Pi Epsilon fraternity who are on the staffs of college journals in institutions where the organization has a chapter.

The purpose of the contest is to stimulate greater interest in university publications, and to elevate the quality of their editorials. If the contest this year is successful, it will be made an annual event, with additional prizes later for other journalistic features. College "comics" are barred from the competition.

Identical prizes will be awarded in the two groups, as follows: first prize, $50: second, $35: third, $25: fourth, $15: and fifth, $10.

The board of judges is composed of editors and writers of national repute. They are I. E. Bennett, editor of the Washington Post; C. G. Bowers, editor of the New York Evening World; Louis Ludlow, editor of the Ohio State Journal; O. P. Newman, Washington journalist; and F. W. Wile, author and political writer.

The competition closes July 1, 1928, and all manuscripts must be sent in by that time to be considered in the contest. All editorials must have been written by undergraduates and published during the academic year 1927-28. Monthlies, quarterlies, literary magazines, alumni publications, and comic magazines are excluded from the contest.

The director of the contest, Dean Doyle, was an instructor at Harvard, but is now the dean of men at George Washington University.

In speaking of the contest, he says, "by this initial competition for editorials, the Pi 'Delta Epsilon fraternity hopes to contribute something now, and more later, to the betterment of college journals and the encouragement of wholesome campus life."