Show ABOUT OTHE OTHER COLLEGES With the aim of encouraging literary activity among college graduates the Century Magazine offers to give annually during four successive years three prizes j of each open to 10 the competition of persons who receive the degree of Bachelor Bachelor Bachelor Bach Bach- elor of Arts in any college or university university in the United States during the commencement commencement commencement com com- i seasons of 1897 1898 1899 and 1900 J 1st for the best metrical writing writing writing writ writ- 1 ing of not fewer than fifty lines a for the best essay in the field of biography history or literary J criticism of not fewer than four thousand or more than eight thousand words for the best story of not fewer than four thousand or more than eight thousand words On or before June 1st of the year succeeding succeeding succeeding suc suc- graduation competitors must submit type written manuscript to the editor of the Century Magazine marked outside and inside For the College Competition signed by a pen-name pen and accompanied by the name and ad- ad 1 0 fIt i. i iti n ti j l i 2 t dress of the author in a separate sealed envelope which will not be opened until the decision has been made A competitor may submit more than one manuscript Manuscripts must not have been pub pub- The editor at his discretion may withhold withhold withhold with with- hold the award in any class in case no manuscript is thought worthy of the prize The Century Magazine reserves the right to print the prize manuscripts without further payments the copyright to revert to the authors three months after the date of publication in the magazine Announcements of the awards will be made in The Century Magazine as early as as' as possible in the autumn The The N N. J I. |