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...Tri-Collegiate Literary competition opens...
...Tri-Collegiate Literary Competition, organized last year by the Advocate, the Yale Courant, the Yale Literary Magazine, and the Nassau Literary Magazine, of Princeton, will commence on November 1. The purpose of the competition is to stir up literary activity among undergraduates in the three colleges by creating rivalry. Three prizes of $50 each will be presented for the best short story, poem, and one act play submitted, and any man in College may compete for one or all three of these rewards...
...current issue of the Advocate appear two thoughtful bits of essay, some stories and verse, little better than mediocre, and a flourish of well-turned play reviewing. The array is by no means despicable. One hopes, however, with the editors, that the three months' Tri-collegiate Competition proposed for next year, will aid in raising the standard of contributions...
...purpose of the "Tri-collegiate Literary Competition" is explained in Mr. Thayer's leader. He believes that "the idea of beating another college should evoke more zeal than that of winning from a personal friend." Excellence in intellectual pursuits craves the approval of the masses, however seldom it gets such approval; and since effort in an intercollegiate competition is sure to win some degree of recognition from the undergraduate masses, the new plan may prove effective. The second essay is a plea by Mr. Peters to have enrolled upon the Memorial Hall tablets the names of Harvard men who died...
...play-reviews give real information. This department of the paper seems decidedly successful. It, together with the essay writing already spoken of, makes one wonder at the finality of the unexplained statement as to the Tri-Collegiate Literary Competition that "essays are necessarily excluded...