The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-06
HAS AROUSED
GREAT Interest
The Tribune's Second Educational
Contest Is the Talk OF
the Town.
THE EIGHT REWARDS

Although the Dates for the Opening
and Closing of the Contest Have
Not Yet Been Announced, Many
Inquiries Have Been Sent in-All
Will Be Answered--The Magnitude
of This Years Offer-Full Particu-
lars will Be Published This Week.
Tho announcement in saturdays
tribune that in Il short time another
educational contest would commence,
conducted on the same general lines
that characterized the educational con-
tcst of last summer, attracted wide
spread attention. The contest of lastyear
was in the nature of an experiment.,
inasmuch as nothing approaching it
had ever boon hcard of hcrcabouts,
and the magnitude of the special re-
wards made the undertaking seem
hazardous one. Comments were fire.
qucntly heard expressing doubts of its
success, solely because of the costly
nature of the special rewards. The
gratifying results of that first contest
We're almost beyond belief. signifyng
that the young people of this city and
of the surrounding towns know an OPP
portunity when 1t is presented and are
always ready to work with q will when
ii is to their own interest and for their
own advancement.
The second educational contest. the
date for the formal opening of which
viii he announced this week, will far
exceed last years in the quality OF the
special rewards offered and in the total
nf their cash value. AS stated in Sat
llrday's Tribune. there will be none but
scholarships offered as special rewards
this year. owing to the fact that all
of last years winners expressed a pre-
ference for them and some were great
ly disappointed because they did not
get one of the five scholarships then
offered. even though all but two were
entitled to rewards of Il greater in
trnsic vHl,c than some of the scholar
ships.
Eight Scholarships Are Offered.
This wear there will he eight scholar
ships, three more than were offered last
year. The first two, scholarships in
Lafayette and Swarthmurc colleges.
ara of the value of 81 .OO0 each. the
same as the first special reward of
last year. a scholarship in Wyoming
seminary. which was won by Charles
Rodriguez, Of this city. Last year
there WAS bui one first prize-this year
there ar" two. In our first contest the
second prize WAS IL scholarship in the
Bloomsbury state Normal school. or
the value of 500 In our second con-
test. soon to commence. a companion
scholarship is offered as our third spc-
cial reward. IL full three years term
IL the StroudSburg state Normal
'chool, Of the value of $6775.
These tE,ec scholarships clone are
worth m"rc N cash value tran the
whole ten special rewards of last year.
There are still five left. which makes
the offer we ara going tn make to the
young people of this part of the state
unprecedented in>enterprise, merit and
quality.
Catering to the wishes of the music
loving portion Of the community, two
schola rshps in the Scranton Conserva-
tory of Music have been secured. the
terms of which are very liberal to the
students who may secure them. They
may either take an advanced course
for one year, or a course for begin
ncrS extending over Il longer period
at the option of the fortunate Win
ncrs. Then there are three scholar
ships offered in another local nStitu-
tion, the scranton Business college. in
aither the commercial or shorthand
'ourses which should appeal particu-
ariy to the industrious young men and
women who expect to gain n future
'onthold in the business world and
sI..t ,l,,,..
an agreeable and easy way Of procur-
ng an insight into the theories and
practices of their hoped for career.
Interest Already Aroused.
saturdays preliminary article set
tlnS forth the fact that a second cdu-
cational contest will soon begin caused
considerable agitation among newspa-
per readers. Everywhere comments
were heard, most of which We're lauda-
tory. 1t is proba BILE that much great
or interest has been already aroused
by this announcement than was the
case last year. when the project was
then something entirely novel. The re-
markable success of that one and the
tremendous enthusiasm aroused by the
energy of the contestants during their
summer campaign made The Tribunes
euucdtlolldl contest Il household phrase,
and there We're but few residents of
Northeastern Pennsylvania who did
not become extremely interested long
before 1t was over.
Ihis year that interest will be inten-
slhed. The increased magnitude of this
years special rewards justiies the eN-
pectation that much larger number
or contestants will enter the field and
that the majority of them will begin
as soon as the contest opens, instead
OF deferring their entrance until the
last Few weeks, when it will be neces-
sary to work so much harder to catch
up with the leaders.
This week the dates for the opening
and closing of the contest will be given.
Until the morning of the first day no
contestants names will be enrolled.
All letters of inquiry, however, ad-
dressed To Editor Educational CON
test Scranton Tribune, Scranton. pa"
VIII receive prompt reply.
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