Crime Does Pay: For Calls by Writers Out for Last Comp

The telephone bill at the Harvard CRIMSON averages about $500 a month. Not all of this total is consumed in calls to Wellesley; a goodly sum also goes for long distance calls to Washington, New York and New Haven as eager Crimeds frantically ferret out news at its sources.

Eagerness is not the only quality expected from CRIMSON candidates. Writing ability prospers under a system by which every line that appears in print is ruthlessly scrutinized by jealous critics. It is not by chance that for the past three years in a row the Crime has won the Dana Reed award for the best writing to appear in a Harvard undergraduate publication.

The last competition of the year opens Tuesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m.