Roosevelt Recalls Student Training On Crimson Staff

"It was on the CRIMSON that I received my first and last newspaper training. And I must admit that I remember my own adventures as an editor more clearly than I do my routine work as a student," is a statement made by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, former President of the CRIMSON, reminscing several years ago.

Monday at 7:30 o'clock a new CRIMSON competition begins for all boards. Freshmen are eligible for the News, Photographic, and Business branches of the paper, while Sophomores may compete for positions on the Editorial and Photographic boards.

President Roosevelt several years following graduation spoke of the "spirit" on the paper and feared that this important feature of the CRIMSON would vanish when the location was changed from Mass. Ave. quarters to the Union. He said in part: "There was much fear expressed that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no Punch-nights could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved more than groundless."

The value of the training received in CRIMSON work has been attested to on many occasions by men well-known in journalism, education, and public life. Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, emeritus, once said: "I advise and strongly urge all Freshmen who wish to write, to take part in the CRIMSON competition."