Word: limericking
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Each week's winning entry will be published on Wednesday. Entries for that week must be received by the Limerick Editor at the CRIMSON not later than Monday morning. Later entries will be considered in the following week's contest. Each week's winner will receive 1 (one) dollar...
...subject matter of any limerick to qualify must be "a character connected with Harvard or its surroundings." Entries will be judged not only by mere humor, but by appropriateness and propriety as well...
There must be no ill feeling, no matter how cleverly put, in the verse, although no names will be printed. Far-fetched rhymes are in place, especially if they add to the humor or the unity of the limerick, and two-word rhymes or the use of an extra-hard name will be given especial credit...
...information of those who believe they can write an excellent limerick but do not as yet know what one is, it is a five line stanza--two anapestic trimotric lines, two anapestic dimotric lines, and a final anapestic trimeter. The rhyme scheme is A A B B A. As illustrations here are two well known limericks which will not encroach on anyone's prospective subject matter...
Entries should be mailed to the Limerick Editor, The Crimson, 14 Plympton Street...