The University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Boston Architectural Club have combined to offer a series of prizes to any student in design who is now in one of the above institutions or who has ever been connected with one of them. Five competitions will be held this year, with a first prize of $50 and a second of $25. On each of five Friday afternoons, of which only two dates, November 16 and 30, have as yet been set, a problem will be given out at 5 o'clock. The final drawings and solutions are to be handed in by the following Monday at 9 o'clock in the morning.

A gift of Mr. Charles A. Coolidge '81, the builder of Leland Stanford University at California, has made it possible for the University to give two of the five prizes. M. I. T. will give two and the Architectural Club will give the fifth. The University prizes will be named in honor of the late Dean H. Langford Warren L.'02 and the late Charles Eliot '82. The prizes of M. I. T. will be known as the Despradelle and the Ware prizes.

By opening these competition to all men who have been connected with any of the institutions, it is hoped to attack graduates of the schools who are working in architects' offices in Boston and its vicinity, and to get them to participate in one or more of the competitions in their own schools. One of the most valuable features of the Beaux-Arts in Paris is the way in which graduates of the ateliers often return to take an occasional problem given to the students in the School. These graduates are known as "ancients", and, by returning to their ateliers, they give the younger men the benefit of their experience in offices. Some substitute for this system is badly needed in the United States, and it is with this idea in mind that the present scheme has been evolved.

The competitions will be outside of the regular curriculum. No student in the schools will be forced to participate, though the advance men in design will be invited to do so. Certain academic credit will, however, be given for successful solutions of the problems by undergraduates, even though the drawings do not win prizes.