N. Y. TIMES CONTEST COMES ON MARCH 4

The New York Times Current Events Contest will be held this year on March 4 from 2 to 5 o'clock. The contest which is an annual affair, is open to all members of the University and to members of Radcliffe College for the first time. Three prizes totaling $250 will be awarded as follows: First prize $150, second prize $75, and third prize $25.

The basis for the competition is the general and specific knowledge of the world over a set period of time. A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, will have charge of the contest at Harvard this year and will later name two assistants to help him in grading the papers and choosing the winners.

The examination paper of the first prize winner will be sent to the executive committee in New York City and entered in the national contest with the winning papers from 19 other colleges in the country. These will be judged for the New York Times by Henry B. Huntington of Brown and others, and a prize of $500 will be awarded for the best paper.

No registration is necessary to enter the contest, and no requirements are made. The contestants will be examined upon the news of the period from March 1, 1930 to March 3, 1931, and will be judged on their ability in answering the questions, which can be divided into two main subdivisions: the first of these will include a number of factual questions which will call for knowledge of small bits of information on various subjects: the second group will call for much wider information on longer answers. The latter will be in "editorial style" and are to be no longer than 500 and no shorter than 250 words.