At the Crimson building tonight at 7 o'clock the first CRIMSON competition of the year will begin. The Editorial Department is opening its doors to Juniors only, this being the first of the two final opportunities for members of the class of 1927 to make the CRIMSON board. The News and Photographic Departments are beginning competitions exclusively for members of the class of 1928.

The candidates for all departments will assemble in the President's Office, and President W. I. Nichols '26 will outline the general plan of the competition, which will continue for 11 weeks in all three departments.

Candidates Given Responsibility

The CRIMSON competitions are admittedly rigorous, but the work is at once interesting and varied. Candidates for the CRIMSON immediately find themselves thrown upon their own initiative and given more real responsibility than is the general rule in other University competitions.

News candidates are reporters. It is they who gather the news for the daily issues, competing for this news on equal footing with professional reporters for the Boston and New York dailies. As reporters they vie with one another for scoops, for which they receive extra credit; they fulfill assignments; they secure timely interviews with prominent men and women in every field. In short, they become full fleged newspapermen. After making the board, they have an opportunity to compete for executive positions on the paper.

Crimson Widely Quoted

The editorial candidates immediately begin to write editorials for publication under the supervision of the editorial chairman. Over 50 CRIMSON editorials were quoted by Metropolitan papers last year. Many of these were written by editorial candidates. Affairs of local and national interest are both treated in the editorial columns of the CRIMSON.

To learn the theory of photography and to put it into practice is the lot of the photographic candidates. Assigned to take pictures of people and activities with cameras furnished by the department, they are then taught to develop, print, and enlarge them. Besides gaining a knowledge of photography, a pleasant pastime in itself, the candidates are, through their work, kept in touch with all the phases of life in the University.

The business department will hold a competition for 1928 later in the fall.