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HYMN CONTEST LAUNCHED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS GROUP

Hillyer To Judge Best International Poem To Be Set to Music

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The Hymn Committee of the League of Nations Association has launched a contest for the writing of the best International Hymn to be sung to the first 16 bars of the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Prizes will be awarded to the authors of the best poems. The winning poem will be set to music and sung at a meeting of the League of Nations Association in Boston this year. The judges of the contest will be R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, and S. F. Damon '14, formerly assistant in English at Harvard.

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