Adams to Award Prizes for Boston Improvement Plan

Charles Francis Adams '88 will announce the results and award the $8000 in prizes in the contest to conceived a plan for post-war improvements in Boston. The announcement will be part of a meeting at Faneuil Hall tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, which will feature speeches by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, President of the Board of Overseers, and Mayor Maurice J. Tobin.

Sponsored by Boston's three largest educational institutions, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston University, as well as by the Boston Society of Architects, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Governor Saltonstall, and Mayor Tobin, the contest is attempting to promote citizen interest and participation in plans for a better Boston after the war.

Educational Improvements

The plan will cover improvements in education, docks and harbors, airfields, slum clearance, recreation, traffic conditions. Crime control, taxation, and general government.

The contest was open to everyone, but only 90 plans were submitted. Among these applications many were by teams of specialists, several by members of the Harvard faculty. The manuscripts, varying in length from 5,000 to the maximum 15,000 words were submitted last March. After spending the entire summer reading them, the six judges have finally arrived at their decision.

Cites General Idea

Dean Hudnut, one of the judges, was not able to disclose the winners, but gave a general idea of what the winning plan was like. "The plan that the judges liked best," he said, "called for sweeping reforms. It called for larger and more accessible playgrounds, more modern schools with better paid teachers, a completely revised tax system, condemnation of slums, construction of new and wider highways, and the partial abolition of the suburban system of government in favor of a more centralized one."