Final plans for the Harper's Intercollegiate Literary Contest for 1927 have just been announced. This is the second year of the contest, its success last year having led Harper's Magazine to repeat it, with certain modifications.

Harper's offers a First Prize of $500, a Second Prize of $300, and a Third Prize of $200 for the best pieces of English prose written by undergraduates in American colleges and universities.

Last year W. D. Edmunds Jr. '26 of Harvard won one of the two second prizes of the contest, Mary Lispenard Cooper of Vassar taking the other. Archer Winston of Princeton won the first prize, for which students in 84 American universities participated.

All manuscripts must be mailed to the Intercollegiate Literary Contest Harper's Magazine, 49 East 33rd Street, New York City, not later than midnight on March 5, 1927. Each manuscript must be typewritten, must bear the name and address of the author, and must be accompanied by a self-adressed envelope bearing sufficient stamps for the return of the manuscript.

Manuscripts, to be eligible, must be the original work of enrolled students in any of the undergraduate departments. They must be written in prose, but may be stories, essays, articles, or any other form of prose work suitable for magazine publication. The limit of length is 7,000 words in the case of stories, 4,000 in the case of essays Manuscripts which have been published elsewhere than in a college magazine or newspaper are ineligible. No competitor may submit more than one manuscript.

The final choice of the prize-winners will be made by a Board consisting of three distinguished writers. They are Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of "The Saturday Review of Literature" Elinor Wylie, author of "The Orphan Angel," and William McFee, author of "Command" and "Casuals of the Sea."

It is hoped that it will be possible to announce the names of the prize winners by May 20