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According to the terms of the contest, which were announced in the CRIMSON of March 30, the general examination is to be held simultaneously in the several colleges on May 15. These terms stipulated that each college should choose its own date and method of preliminary examination...
...Harvard examination in the New York Times Current Events Prize Contest will be held in Widener N at 3 o'clock on Friday, April 16. This announcement was made last night by Professor C. N. Holcombe, who is the representative of the University on the national committee, and who is in charge of the local contest. The winner of this examination receives a prize of $250 with a gold medal and becomes the Harvard entrant in the final competition for the intercollegiate prize...
...winner of the intercollegiate contest will receive a prize of $500 and a gold medal. The other colleges entered are Yale, Princeton, Annapolis, West Point, Columbia, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell
...field covered in this contest includes current events of political, economic and social significance...
...Times, speaking editorially of this contest, says in part: "The results of the examinations which will be held in these several Institutions before the end of the academic year, each institution determining the content and method of its own examination, should be at great significance and indicate in what ways the newspaper may be a more general and effective means of education in America. They should also be helpful to the whole movement in adult education. The incidental inter-university contest will open a new field for friendly intellectual competition in subjects of universal human interest and, if successful, should...