JOURNALISTIC FRATERNITY CONDUCTS NATIONAL EDITORIAL CONTEST
In order to arouse the active support of every male undergraduate in the United States and Canada to liberal arts courses, and to refute the popular claim that a four-year cultural course is time misspent, Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary collegiate journalism fraternity, has announced as the subject for its 1921-22 intercollegiate editorial contest, "The Practical Value of a Cultural Education."
Thousands of editorials on this subject are expected, for the contest will, this year, be open to every male undergraduate in every college and university of the United States and Canada. Because great interest in this subject has been manifested of late and because of the fact that Pi Delta Epsilon will award . its coveted gold, silver and bronze medals to the prize-winners, as well as its Certificate of Merit to first-prize winners in each college and university represented, an exceptionally large number of entries is expected.
President Warren G. Harding, a member of Pi Delta Epsilon, and former editor and present owner of the Marion (Ohio) Star, will represent the fraternity in the presentation of awards. Three prominent metropolitan newspaper editors will act as final judges.
Nation-wide publicity will be given the 1921-1922 contest through the Associated Press and other news-gathering media, and the prizewinning editorials will be released in mimeographed form, simultaneously, to every college, university and daily metropolitan newspaper in this country and Canada, together with photographs of the winners.
This year, Pi Delta Epsilon's contest will be double in scope. A local contest will be conducted at every college and university, and each local first prize .winner will receive the Certificate of Merit of the fraternity, and will be eligible to submit his editorial in the national contest. Three prize winners in the national contest will receive the Pi Delta Epsilon medals.
The following faculty representatives have been named by the Editorial Committee of Pi Delta Epsilon to supervise the contest at Dartmouth:
T. G. Brown, instructor in journalism; E. P. Kelley, instructor in English; and Prof. David Lambuth of the English Department.
They will act as a committee in selecting local judges, and will forward the winning editorial, by special delivery, to the fraternity's Contest Committee. This editorial will, then, automatically identify the winner of a Certificate of Merit and will represent that particular institution in the Intercollegiate Contest.
