Crime Opens Upperclass Competitions Monday

Competitions for the Crimson's news, business, editorial, and photographic boards open at 7:30 p.m. Monday. All sophomores and juniors interested in joining the newspaper's staff will be welcomed at 14 Plympton Street. The first competition for freshmen will be held after the November hour exam period when the Class of '55 has become settled at College and has had a chance to familiarize itself with the University scene. The present competition will last for eight weeks with the emphasis on the quality of work produced by the candidates. Men entering the competition should be able to keep up with their studies without too much difficulty.

Crimson editors of the past have included President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and President Conant. After FDR was elected President of the United States this former Crimson president said. "I remember my own adventures as an editor rather more clearly than I do my routine work as a student. (I would not) exchange my Crimson training for any other experience or association in college days."

In recent years dozens of Crime staff members have gone directly into good newspaper jobs right after graduation and their departure from Cambridge's only breakfast table daily.