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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Morosco offers a prize of $500 for the prose dramatic composition of at least three acts adjudged by a committee of three to be the best suited for professional production. Plays submitted must be the absolute property of the author, and not subject to any copyright or other claim by or in name of a third person...
...manuscripts must be typewritten and marked clearly "Morosco Prize Competition," with the name and address of the author, as well as the year in which he or she was a member of English 47 or 47a. Sufficient postage for the return of the manuscript should be enclosed. All plays submitted must be at 195 Brattle street, Cambridge, October...
...best play of each candidate is desired. Two manuscripts may, however, be submitted, if the author thinks best. Not more than two may be submitted except by special permission to be gained from the representatives of the University on the Committee of Judges...
Should the number of manuscripts submitted be not more than twenty-five, the decision will be given in a month or six weeks; if a larger number is received, a proportionately longer time will be needed. Immediately after the decision, the Prize of $500 will be paid to the author of the successful play. This payment will not be in lion of any royalties. A contract with the author on a sliding scale of 5 per cent., 7 1-2 per cent., and 10 per cent., and guaranteeing a production of the play within six months of its acceptance, will...
President, William Roscoe Thayer '81, author and poet; vice-president, Professor Francis William Taussig '79, of the Economics Department, still on war service in Washington; secretary, Professor William Guild Howard '91, of the German Department; treasurer, Richard Henry Dana '74, prominent laywer. A vote was passed by the meeting to invite the united chapters of Phi Beta Kappa to hold their next triennial meeting here in Cambridge. The following list of honorary members was also approved by the society...