A competition for the selection of the Harvard delegate to the Intercollegiate Poetry Reading Convention will be held in Holden Chapel on Friday at 3.30 o'clock, it was announced by F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking. The convention which is an annual affair will be held this year at Hunter College in New York on Saturday, May 13.

Candidates for the Harvard representative will bring to Holden Chapel several choices of four minutes' length each, selected according to their own tastes in poetry.

Each year, 20 prominent Eastern colleges participate in the convention which is founded on the belief that only through proper oral rendition can poetry achieve its ultimate possibilities as a means of aesthetic enjoyment. the following is a list of colleges participating; Harvard, Radcliffe, Adelpai, Amherst. Harvard, Brooklyn, City College of New York, Cambridge College for Women, Dartmouth, Hunter Mt. Holyoke, New York University, Rhode Island College of Education, Russell Sage, Sarah Lawrence, Smith, Vassar, and Wells. Last year, D.I. Moore '33 was Harvard's delegate, and Margot Clark represented Radcliffe.