Sophomore Businessmen Have Opportunity to Start Careers As Crimson Fall Competitions Get Under Way Wednesday

On Wednesday evening, September 30, at 7:30 o'clock, an opportunity will be given to Sophomores to meet and talk over with the Business Board of the CRIMSON plans for the forthcoming competition of that board. The candidate, who need not have had any previous training, will be assigned certain duties from which he will learn methods of salesmanship and make valuable business contacts. This sort of work is excellent training, and forms a foundation upon which one may build his future business career. He will find the merchants in the Square and Boston receptive to his ideas and willing to help him in advertising.

The most important factors gained from this work are a firm foundation in sales talk and the overcoming of shyness which so often handicaps a young man at the start of his career. These asserts, however will require a goodly amount of work and originality on the part of the candidate.

There are three divisions into which a candidates work is divided, namely advertising, the collection of bills, and office management. Naturally, emphasis is placed upon his ability to bring in ads, but the collection of outstanding bills is an all-important part in the success of any business. At first the candidate may feel he is not doing as well as he ought; however, it takes a few days to get accustomed to the correct methods of approaching prospects. As time goes on, his volume of advertising will gradually increase until he is bringing in enough money to enable him easily to reach the required quota.

After eight weeks certain of the candidates will be selected to become business editors, and later allowed to run the paper for a week at a time. In this way the CRIMSON man will have an advantage over the ordinary person in that he will have learned how a newspaper is run.

The Business Manager is chosen during the middle of his Junior year and serves just a year.

The editors of the CRIMSON share in the profits at the end of each fiscal year. However, the work is so interesting that this is not necessary to inspire competition for the Business Board.

Responsibilities of the Business Board are as great as those held by any other body of undergraduates. This fact is quite evident, for the CRIMSON has an annual turn-over of $50,000 more or less.

On Wednesday evening, competitions will open for Sophomores for the Editorial and Photographic Boards as well as the Business Board.