After seven days of frenzied consultation the CRIMSON'S twenty-five man board of judges has emerged from behind closed doors. Stern of countenance, after 168 consecutive hours of argument, the elders delivered the names of two crostic winners to the President of the CRIMSON in a sealed envelope. They then filed out the Plympton Street exit, muttering feverishly of "neatness," "originality," "aptness of thought," and "rounding up the usual suspects."

What were the criteria of victory? All was explained on a yellowed sheet of parchment locked within the judges' envelope. Had contestants noted, for example, that "Chocolates," "Elsie," "Parietals," and "Joust" were grossly misspelled? Had they recognized that "Bacterium" is singular, whereas "Cocci" is plural?

Perhaps desolate losers may find consolation in the fact that the elders' decision was not unanimous. Clark R. Chapman '66 and Robert E. Olsen '66 were pronounced victorious only by a consensus of twenty-three judges. There were two dissenting votes.