13 MARCH 1926, Page 21

THE NEW COMPETITION

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a quotation applicable to the University Boat Race.

WARNING :--We hive set a very short time limit to this competition. Quotations need not be applicable to this year's boat race in particular, but rather to the boat race as an institution. And may we ask competitors who submit quotations in outlandish tongues to give translations, too ? This for their own sakes ; we might pretend to omniscience ourselves, but we could not reasonably award the prize to an entry which would be unintelligible to many of our readers. RULES FOR COMPETITORS.

I. All entries must be received on or before Saturday, March 27th.

2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they wish, but each entry must be accompanied by one of the coupons to be found on page 509 of this issue.

3. The name and address (or the pseudonym) of every .com- petitor must be written clearly at the foot of Ins manuscript.

4, The Editor cannot return any manuscript submitted for the competition, nor can he enter into correspondence with competitors.

5. The Editor reserves the right of printing any manuscript submitted.

6. Envelopes must be addressed : Competition, the Spectator, 13 York Stteet, Covent Garden, London, W.C.