TIMES SPONSORS ANNUAL CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST

This afternoon at 2 o'clock the annual Current Events contest sponsored by the New York Times will be held in Widener O. Joseph Wright of the Municipal Research department will be in charge.

As no preliminary registration is required, no exact estimate can be made of the number of students who will enter, but since the competition has been opened to Radcliffe satudents, it is probable that there will be more than the 27 entries of last year. The name of the winner of the Harvard contest will be announced on or before March 20, and his paper sent shortly afterward to Brown University to compete with the papers of nineteen other colleges in the intercollegiate contest for an additional prize of $500.

In the Harvard competition prizes of $150, $75, and $25 are offered for the three best papers, which will be corrected by a local committee to be chosen shortly after the examinations. The names of this committee will not be made known until after the announcement of the winners. The last time the intercollegiate prize was won by a Harvard man was in 1928.

The competition is open to all undergraduates except those who have won the prize later than their Freshman year, and a Freshman who may have won it is eligible to compete again only in his Senior year.

As in previous years, the examination will probably be divided into two parts; the first will consist of several essay questions in which the candidates will be asked to identify and give the significance of important events of the preceding year; the second will be made up of fact questions. Current events in the year from March 1, 1930, to the day of the contest will be tested.