TONIGHT AT 7:30

Modern educators, including President Conant, are currently vying with each other in their loud huzzahs for extra-curricular activities as a vital part of an education. Official Harvard recognizes them in its scholarship awards and in various other honors. The undergraduate body recognizes them by common respect for participants. In choosing his activity, each student must be guided by his own interest and capabilities. But the Crimson likes to feel that it shelters under its skirts such a variety of activities that it can satisfy the bent of almost everyone.

To the literary-minded, it offers an opportunity for development, with the added satisfaction of seeing one's work in print that will be read by hundreds of breakfasters. "I advise and strongly urge all who wish to write to take part in a Crimson competition" was Professor Copeland's confirmation of this. To busy-bodies, the Crimson offers a legitimate excuse to mind other people's affairs. For undergraduates who like to get around, there is close contact with the men who run Harvard, as officers, professors or students. For men with special interests in a vast variety of subjects--politics, sports, humanity in general and collegiate humanity in particular--there is an opportunity to express those interests. Specifically to artists and musicians does the Editorial Board offer a chance to criticize. Students with an occupational interest in newspaper work, photography, or business, will get practical experience not to be surpassed by an actual apprenticeship in the non-cloistered world.

The Crimson has traditions and spirit behind it. But in order to maintain these traditions and nurture this spirit, it needs good men. Tonight at 7:30, the Crimson opens its winter competition for the News, the Editorial, the Business, and the Photographic Boards--to which all capable men are invited.