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ELIOT WINS FIRST PRIZE IN LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Head and Bush-Brown Gain Second and Third Prizes Respectively--32 Designs Submitted it Competition for the Topiarian Club Trophy

First place in the annual competition for the Topiarian Club trophy, open to students in the School of Landscape Architecture, has been awarded to Charles William Eliot, 2nd, 3S.L.A, of Cambridge. Second and third places have been awarded to Francis Head 4S.L.A. of Bangor, Me., and James Bush-Brown 2S.L.A. of Washington, D. C., respectively. Honorable mention was given to Frank Andrew Schrepfer 2S.L.A. of Chicago, Ill., special mention for attractiveness of presentation was awarded to Thomas Dolliver Church 1S.L.A. of Berkley, Cal., and for consistency of conception to Herbert Devali Landhorne 2S.L.A. of Alameda, Cal.

The 32 drawings submitted were judged yesterday afternoon by Professor J. S. Pray '95, Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, of the School of Landscape Architecture, Mr. Percival Gallagher, Professor J. W. Gregg, In charge of Instruction in Landscape Architecture at the University of California, and Mr. S. C. Smith, landscape architect of Providence, R. I.

Competition for Tea-House Design

The competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map representing a location in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod, and were asked to design a tea-house lay-out, with tea-terrace, garden in the New England Colonial manner, boat landing, and other arrangements calculated for the pleasure and accommodation of patrons.

This is the twelfth comptition for the trophy which was given to the Topiarian Club by an unknown dollor and competed for annually. The winner has his name inscribed on the trophy.

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The drawings which were entered in this competition will go on exhibition beginning tomorrow, and will remain on exhibition until January 27, between the hours of 9 and 5 o'clock in the Hall of Casts, on the first floor of Robinson Hall.

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