Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...change from the usual requirements has been made this year in that the length of the poem need not be restricted to 50 lines. All manuscript must bear an assumed name and must be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed name. The competition is only open to undergraduates of Harvard College. All manuscripts should be left at University 4, at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, by 5 P. M., April...
...appearance of the letters can be remedied by improvement of typewriter type. Hitherto it has not been profitable for manufacturers of typewriters to prepare type as carefully as in printing, but this new demand for accurate typewriters will result in the necessary improvement. As for the uneveness of typewritten manuscript, due to the uniform space allowed for each letter regardless of its width, there are at present patents in Washington for differential feed typewriters--that is, typewriters which allow a different space for each width of letter. For example, an 'i' or an 'I' is allowed five units of space...
...only unsurmountable difficulty is the uneveness of the right margin. It seems extremely doubtful whether a machine can be invented which will produce even right margins in manuscript without a great loss of time. I think, however, that we will come to accept a slight unevenness in the right margin in the course of time...
...element of time, of course, makes the process inapplicable to newspaper work. The necessity of doing one column at a time, the two operations necessary in engraving as compared to the one of the linotype machine, and, finally, the necessity of recopying an entire page of manuscript if the proofreader discovers one or two typograhpical errors, all combine to make the process longer than the requirements of a modern newspaper press demand. Another restriction is that the process cannot be used for the better grade of book work. The uneveness of the right margin, which I mentioned, and the difficulty...
...prize will be awarded only in ease a proposition is submitted which in the opinion of the judges, is deserving of it. The title-page of each manuscript must be signed with an assumed name or motto, the same to be also written on the envelope of a sealed letter in which is enclosed the real name of the competitor. Manuscripts are to be in the hands of the committee by April 15. ARTHUR FOOTE, Chairman, 31 Green St., Coolidge Cor. GEORGE A. BURDETT FREDERICK S. CONVERSE...