Evening star., 1927-12-06
LEAGUE Of NATIONS
CONTEST IS OPENED
Competitive Tests Listed for
High School Students.
Prizes Offered.

The second national competitive ex
animation on the League of Nations
for high school students of the United
states was announced here today 10y
the educational department of the
League of Nations Non Partisan ASso
r;ation OF New York City. As last
.eor. trip To Europe featuring 2
$40 week visit {" Geneva. Switzerland
will constitute the first prize. a sec
ond prize of s1o0 and a third prize OF
$50 also are offered.
Under rules of the contest. any high
school in the country may enter two
students of its selection in the com
petitive examination field. The eXami
nation to be based upon the Survey,
p 14O-pace pamphlet prepared by the
Information section of the League oi
Nations Secretariat. two copies ot
which will be given free 10 any school
will be held March 16, 1925. Entrants
must be registered by December 19.
$1,000 Gift Is Made.
The prizes are made possible this
year by the gift of 81 900 made by a
member of the Non Partisan ASsocia-
tton. Last wear, Donald G.. Wilson, l6.
of Portland, Greg. won the European
trip.
The national advisory committee.
under whose auspices the examination
will he given, includes:
DR.. stephen u. DuSgan, chairman;
Cornela 8 .Adair. National Education
Association: Edwin a. Alderman. Uni
versity of Virginia; Leonard T. Baker.
University of South Carolina; William
Bennett RizZell. University of Okla
hDma: Wills III. Boocock. University of
Georgia: Arthur +. Bostwick. st. Louis
Public Library; II. G.. Campbell, Morn
incside College: Walter r.. Clark, Uni
vsprsitv of Nevada; Donald s. Cowling,
Carleton College: John Q. Creager,
University of Arkansas; \. r. Crozler,
snperintendent of schools, Dallas. Tex;
n. J. Cunningham. Montana Educa-
tion Association; Edwin ID. Dickinson,
University of Michigan; Henry w. Ell
son. Plainfield. n. j.: William II. =:
Faunce, Brown University: David
Felmley. Illinois State Normal Uni
versitv: Irving Fisher, Yale Univer-
sttv: Meta Glass. Sweet Briar College;
Hamilton Holt, Rollins College; Err
nest Martin Hopkins. Dartmouth Col
leSe: J. Fl. James. Northwestern Uni
versitv: Charles T.. laval. West Nir'
einia University: Samuel NJ. lie Page.
ottawa University: Henry Noble Mac
Cracken. NaSsar College.
Others on Committee.
Also Charles f. Martin. University
of Washington: George s. McCune,
Huron College; Edmund c. Mower.
University of Vermont; A. Evelyn
Newman, Colorado State Teachers
College: Marion Edwards Park. Bryn
Mawr College: Laura h. Pfeiffer, Uni
versity of Nebraska: Charles w. PIP
kin. Louisiana State University; w.
Il Poteat. Wake Forest College; Pit
T,,;x of "icNnn.
sin: J. w. Putnam, Butler University:
Martha Mackenzie Reid. University of
Arkansas: Aurelia Henry Reinhardt.
Mills College: William Schrier. Uni
veisitv of North Dakota: Walter r.
Siders, superintendent OF schools. Po-
catello. Idaho: Edward o. Sisson. Reed
College: Guy f. Snavely. Birmingham
Southern College: Ida Lee Tall.
Maryland State Normal School; Au-
gustus o. Thomas. commissioner OF
education. Augusta. Me-; Lewis e..
Tidball, commissioner of education,
cheyenne. Wyo.; Charles J. Turck.
Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-
ogy: David A. Ward. superintendent
Of schools. Wilmington, Del: Ernest
r. wilkins. Oberlin College; Mary
Emma Woolley. Mount Holyoke Col
ege. and J. F. Zimmerman. University
of New Mexico.
The committee of award is COM
posed Of Miss Helen Clarkson Miller,
chairman: Prof. Harry j. Carman.
Columbia University: Everett Colby.
New York: Prof. Charles Hodges, New
York University; Mrs. G. Maud Lowell,
Detroit. Mich: Henry c. Pearson,
Horace Mann School, New York. and
John L. Tildsley. district superintend-
ent of schools, New York.