The competition for the prizes of $100 and $50 offered to students of the University by the National Foreign Trade Council for essays on "The commercial necessity for developing foreign trade through an adequate American merchant marine" has been extended until the opening of College next autumn. All manuscripts must then be delivered to the Secretary of the Faculty, University 20, and must conform to the general rules for the guidance of competitors for prizes on page 594 of the University Catalogue. The essays must also be not less than 3,000 nor more than 5,000 words in length.

Members of the present Senior class will be allowed to compete, as it was originally announced that the competition would close June 10.

The contest, which is under the direction of a committee of which Dean Gay is a member, is conducted for the purpose of interesting a large number of young people throughout the country in the shipping question. Prizes are offered at twenty-one colleges and in the high schools of New York.