CRIMSON TO OPEN LAST COMPETITION OF COLLEGE YEAR

What with riots, peace strikes, Lampoon skirmishes- not to mention bursting buds in the Yard- the spring is a very merry time for the CRIMSON. The infectious restlessness of the College spreads relentlessly even to the dark reaches of its files and sends its editors to Memorial Hall belfrey looking for bigger and better bell clappers.

That is why the Freshmen should take some of the dirty work off our shoulders and come out for our competition, Wednesday evening, April 10. The time is 7.30 o'clock and the place the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street.

Last year the news candidates were organized into the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club and swept into the glare of publicity when they opposed the NSL peace platform on Widener steps. Later they had prominent parts to play in the demonstration against the Nazi cruiser, Karlsruhe, in City Square, Charlestown. They had to examine the possibilities of incipent riots which often brewed on Cambridge Streets but never quite reached the proportions of the famous demonstration several years ago. Of course, some rather routine and rather difficult assignments face the Freshman news candidate at any time but the spring possesses possibilities, not open in any other competition.

Sophomores and Juniors out for the Editorial Board will find themselves in the Department which has to decide these things. With their editorial a night, they can be amusing, serious, or or really suggest another inadequate solution for some of these questions.

Freshmen competing on the photographic end find themselves in a rush of activity, for they must supply the CRIMSON with a pictorial record of Harvard's spring frivolities. As a result they spend April and May in the midst of riot and mob scenes.

Through all this it is necessary that the Business Board keeps its head. It is they who supply us with the cold hard cash which make possible spring pleasure. Freshmen tackling advertisers, in the spring, however, have a better chance to learn about the human sides of salesmanship. It is the best season of the year for cracking the hard hearts of finance. And we don't always exclude the Business Board from the pleasantries of life