Three competitions for business boards of University publications will open on Monday, May 4. The Advocate has signified its intention of calling out business men for that day as has likewise the Lampoon. The third competition open to the class of 1928 for the business board of the CRIMSON, which was announced to commence on May 5, has also been shifted to begin on the fourth due to conflict on Tuesday with the Freshman smoker, and will get under way with a meeting of all candidates in the business office at 7.30 o'clock.

In discussing the approaching competition, James William Bowen '82, business manager of the eighth board of CRIMSON editors, discussed the difference in aspect of the competition which is about to begin and the one which he entered in 1879.

"When I first went out for the CRIMSON," he said; there were only a handful of men on the board and the business management of the paper in particular was a very difficult proposition. We did all the secretarial and office work ourselves, besides getting the advertisements, which was the worst part of all. About all the advertisements that we got' were from tailors and haberdashers, and then we often had to resort to coercion. Our favorite and most effective method was to run up large bills in the tailoring shops and then refuse to pay unless we were given an advertisement.

"Today, however," he continued, I understand that things are greatly changed. Advertisements are solicited in the regular business fashion and the routine of the office is eliminated by secretaries and bookkeepers. The duties of a candidate are practically nothing compared with what used to be given to us.

"The experience in either case is equally valuable," concluded Mr. Bowen, who as stock and bond dealer has found his early business training invaluable. "One who has never gone through such an experience cannot fully realize just how much it can do to prepare a man for the problems which he will have to face in, later life. I have always looked back upon my CRIMSON work as the most valuable extra-curricular activity of my undergraduate career."