ANNOUNCING THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY CELEBRATION SCHOOL CONTESTS

Beginning October 15, 1937, and closing on February 15, 1938, the following contests will be held for all college and school students in Northwest Territory.

The contests follow:

CONTEST No. 1—for Grade School Students—4 Divisions.

The pupils in public, private and parochial schools, up to and including the 8th grade may enter. Grades 1, 2, 3, 4 will compete through art classes. Grades 5, 6, 7, 8 through essays.

The following classifications are made for purposes of even competition:

Division I—for Grades 1 and 2.

Each child entering is to submit two drawings or art projects, dealing with each of the following subjects:

(A) The American Bill of Rights—Free Speech—Religious Tolerance—Free Education, etc.

(B) Willingness to undergo suffering and hardships to accomplish one’s purpose (such as the trek of the pioneers across the mountains in the dead of winter, etc.)

Drawings are to be 9 x 12 in size, and award will be made for idea conceived as well as execution.

Division II—for Grades 3 and 4.

Competition will be on same basis as is outlined for Division I—that is, based upon drawings or art projects, and same conditions.

Division III—for Grades 5 and 6.

Competition will be based upon an essay of not less than 600 or more than 1000 words. The subject shall be: “The Ordinance of 1787 and what it means to the United States and me today.”

All essays shall be submitted on white paper 8½ x 11 sheets, written legibly on one side only. All sheets to be neatly fastened at the top.

Division IV—for Grades 7 and 8.

Competition also on essays, of not less than 1000 nor more than 1500 words. Essays are to be submitted as above under Division III.

CONTEST No. 2—for High School Students.

Students of public, private and parochial schools may enter.

There shall be two divisions of the contest for high school students.

Division I—for Students of the 9th and 10th Grades.

Competition shall be based upon essays of not less than 1500 nor more than 2000 words. Subject of essays to be your choice of the two following:

“Advent of the principles of the ‘rights of men’ into government and effect of their expression in the Ordinance of 1787 upon our nation today.”

“The development of public lands and colonial policies in America and our debt to the Ordinance of 1787.”

Division II—for Students of the 11th and 12th Grades

of public, private and parochial schools.

Competition to be based upon essays of not less than 1800 nor more than 2500 words. Subjects same as in Division I of Contest No. 2.

CONTEST No. 3—for College Students.

Open to all regularly entered undergraduates in the colleges and universities of Northwest Territory.

There will be but one division in this contest. Freshman to seniors compete in the same class. Competition will be based upon essays of 2500 to 3000 words. The subject chosen is optional with the entrant, but must relate to the Ordinance of 1787 and establishment of Northwest Territory.

Any angle or phase of that history; or combination of phases may be treated. Specialized theses, particularly premises and original research (while not necessary) are encouraged.

GENERAL CONTEST RULES for all divisions of Contest

No. 1. These contests will begin October 15, 1937, and close February 15, 1938. Begin now on your reading and study. On or before February 15, 1938, submit your drawings or essay (as provided for your division) to your teacher or professor.

Read and follow the rules below very carefully.

No. 2. At the top right-hand corner of the front page put the grade you are in. Do not put your name on the essay where it can be read.

The student shall put his or her name, age, grade, teacher, name of school, with home street address, city and state, into an envelope; seal the envelope and paste it firmly to the back of his or her essay or drawing, as the case may be.

No. 3. All essays must be legibly and neatly written or typed, and on the last page show the number of words contained (in the case of essays) and the contest number and division for which entry is made.

No. 4. You may if you wish, and the Commission will appreciate it if you do, append a list of the books you have read and the adults you have talked to about Northwest Territory history in preparation for your essay. This list is not required, and if submitted, is to be in addition to your essay.

No. 5. The preparation of your drawing or essay must be your own work. Read all you will, discuss the subject with others, but prepare your own submission. Right is reserved for the judges to refuse consideration to any entry which shows sufficient evidence of not being prepared by the student. When any sentence or other quotation from other source is made, be sure to use quotation marks around the quotation and to “indent” the lines quoted at least one inch from left margin of your own copy.

No. 6. Illustrations may be used in essays if desired but will not replace words. They may be either hand drawn or pasted-in illustrations clipped from other sources.

No. 7. Submit your essay or drawings (as the case may be) to your teacher by February 15, 1938. Announcement of awards will be made as soon as possible, probably before June 15th, by the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission.

No. 8. The recommendations of the judges will be final and entries submitted become the property of the Commission, with full rights of publication. The Commission assumes no responsibility for acts of the judges or miscarriage of mails, etc.

PRIZES

For Contest No. 1—Divisions I, II, III, IV.

That is for all grade students.

The winning entrant in each division of the contest, from each state of Northwest Territory, will receive a trip to Washington, D. C. and other points of interest along the route, under the following conditions:

A. The trip will be made by railroad train, with air-cooled Pullman from Chicago and return.

B. Special chaperons will be provided from each state to accompany the four children from that state. The chaperon will be the teacher in grades 1 to 8 inclusive, whose room turns in the highest percentage of entrants as related to scholars, in that particular state. In case of ties the chaperon will be chosen by lot or agreement.

C. All meals, berths, rail fare, sight seeing buses and proper expenses of both winning students and chaperons will be paid by the Commission.

D. Three full days in Washington, Mount Vernon, Arlington, and all the sights of the Nation’s Capital.

E. The chaperons will take charge of the four winners from each state at the state capital. The Commission will pay the rail fare of each winner from his or her home to the state capital. Also the rail fare necessary for one parent of each winner to take the winner to and from the state capital where the chaperons take charge.

F. An engraved certificate of achievement will be given each child by a high officer of the United States Government while the party is in Washington.

G. There will be four winners from each state, or twenty-four from the territory, with six chaperons.

For Contest No. 2—Divisions I and II.

That is for all high school students.

The cash prizes offered in this contest are territory-wide. The scholarship prizes will be awarded within the states where the cooperating colleges are located.

Division I—9th and 10th Grades

1st cash prize to boy $125.00 1st cash prize to girl $125.00

2nd “ “ “ “ 75.00 2nd “ “ “ “ 75.00

3rd “ “ “ “ 37.50 3rd “ “ “ “ 37.50

4th “ “ “ “ 25.00 4th “ “ “ “ 25.00

5th “ “ “ “ 12.50 5th “ “ “ “ 12.50

Ten cash prizes $550.00 total

Division II—11th and 12th Grades.

1st cash prize to boy $125.00 1st cash prize to girl $125.00

2nd “ “ “ “ 75.00 2nd “ “ “ “ 75.00

3rd “ “ “ “ 37.50 3rd “ “ “ “ 37.50

4th “ “ “ “ 25.00 4th “ “ “ “ 25.00

5th “ “ “ “ 12.50 5th “ “ “ “ 12.50

Ten cash prizes $550.00 total

Besides this, the following universities and colleges have offered scholarships amounting to $15,000 in value. These will be distributed first to winners in each state. If certain winners prefer a scholarship at a school listed but outside their own state, this will be available only if the scholarship has not been claimed by a winning contestant from the state where the college is located; and provided the entrant from another state is acceptable to the college.

Some of the scholarships offered are subject to prescribed high school standings and entrance requirements. These will be explained to the winning competitors. Most of the scholarships can be deferred if you are only a freshman, sophomore, or junior in high school, and will be available when you graduate.

INDIANA

Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$100.00 a year, subject to entrance requirements.

Hanover College, Hanover, Ind. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$100.00

Huntington College, Huntington, Ind. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$150.00

Indiana Central College, Indianapolis, Ind. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$100.00—freshman year, B average or better.

Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. Co-ed

4 four-year scholarships—freshman to senior.

St. Marys College, Notre Dame, Ind. Girl

1 scholarship—$250.00

St. Marys of the Woods College, St. Marys of the Woods, Ind. Girl

1 scholarship—$250.00 a year and renewable for 3 remaining years for students with A record and satisfactory character.

Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind. Boy

1 four-year scholarship—$200.00 a year.

Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind. Co-ed

2 scholarships—full tuition for 1 year, subject to entrance requirements.

ILLINOIS

Carthage College, Carthage, Ill. Co-ed

1 scholarship—4 years, $100.00 a year.

College of St. Francis, Joliet, Ill. Girl

1 scholarship—$150.00 a year, renewable if student’s work is satisfactory.

Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Ill. Co-ed

1 four-year scholarship, subject to selective requirements for renewal.

Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$275.00—1 year, subject to entrance requirements.

McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$50.00 a semester for 1 year, extension of 3 years at $25.00 a semester for satisfactory record.

Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$100.00, extended for at least two years.

Rockford College, Rockford, Ill. Girl

1 scholarship—$250.00—a girl with satisfactory entrance requirements—in upper third of her high school class.

MICHIGAN

Alma College, Alma, Mich. Co-ed

1 scholarship—1 year, $100.00

Battle Creek College, Battle Creek, Mich. Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year—$100.00, subject to ability of student.

Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$100.00 per year toward degree.

University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich. Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year—$200.00, subject to entrance requirements.

MINNESOTA

Augsberg Theological Seminary & College, Minneapolis, Minn. Co-ed

Scholarship to high school student who might take first place in contest.

College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minn. Girl

Complete tuition for one year.

College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minn. Girl

1 scholarship, 1 year—$150.00, renewable on B average or better.

Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn. Co-ed

$75.00—payable second semester.

Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. Co-ed

$75.00—one semester.

OHIO

Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1st year—$100.00, each year after, $80.00, subject to achievement.

Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio Co-ed

1 four-year scholarship—$100.00 a year, B average or better.

Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio Co-ed

$100.00 to be distributed over a period of two years.

Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio Co-ed

1 four-year scholarship—$50.00 a year.

College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship—$110.00, subject to renewal each year on B average for 4 years.

Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship for 4 years—$100.00 a year.

Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year.

Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year—$100.00.

Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Boy

2 scholarships—$150.00, must meet entrance requirements.

Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio Girl

1 four-year scholarship—$300.00 a year.

Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, $100.00 a year for two years.

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year, extension beyond one year depends upon rank of recipient.

Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year—$100.00, subject to entrance requirements, also entrant must reside within 50 miles of school.

Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, 4 years—$50.00 a year.

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Co-ed

2 two-year scholarships for high school seniors—$60.00 a year.

University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year—$100.00.

Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Co-ed

1 scholarship, tuition for 1 year for boy. 1 scholarship, tuition for 1 year for girl. Both subject to entrance requirements.

Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio Co-ed

1 four-year scholarship—$160.00 a year.

Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio Co-ed

One tuition scholarship.

WISCONSIN

Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisc. Co-ed

1 scholarship, 1 year—$100.00 a year.

Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisc. Co-ed

2 scholarships—$100.00 each, renewal subject to entrance requirements.

Ripon College, Ripon, Wisc. Co-ed

1 scholarship, 2 years—$150.00 a year.

Contest No. 3—College Students.

This contest is Territory wide also.

1st prize to boy $300.00 1st prize to girl $300.00

2nd “ “ “ 200.00 2nd “ “ “ 200.00

3rd “ “ “ 100.00 3rd “ “ “ 100.00

4th “ “ “ 75.00 4th “ “ “ 75.00

5th “ “ “ 50.00 5th “ “ “ 50.00

6th “ “ “ 25.00 6th “ “ “ 25.00

12 prizes $1500.00 total in cash

Also:

University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Co-ed

1 scholarship—$300.00 for post-graduate work, to one of first four winners in College Division.

METHOD OF JUDGING—FOR GRADE SCHOOL CONTEST—CONTEST No. 1

Each school principal will be in charge of judging the entries from that school. The actual work can be parcelled out among the teachers under the principal’s supervision.

The two best entries from each division of this contest should be selected and forwarded within two weeks of the close of the contest, February 15, 1938, to either the city superintendent or the county superintendent as the case may be. This individual school judging should be completed by March 1st, 1938. In the case of city schools the city superintendent of schools will arrange for judging the entries selected by school principals and will submit the one best in each of the four divisions from his city, to the State Department of Education in his state. This city judging should be completed within two weeks or by March 15, 1938.

In the case of country schools, the county superintendent will provide for the judging of the school winners in each division submitted by principals, and will forward the one best in each of the four divisions to the State Department of Education in his state. As in the case of city schools, this should be accomplished by March 15th, 1938.

The State Departments of Education will judge the winners as submitted by county and city superintendents, and notify the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission (Federal) at Marietta, Ohio, as to the one winner in each of the four divisions of the grade schools within that state. This advice should reach the Commission by May 15th, and awards will be made at once. Parochial and private schools shall follow the procedure outlined above, submitting to city or county superintendents of public instructions and through them to State Departments of Education, etc. There will thus be four winners, one from each division of the contest, within each state.

METHOD OF JUDGING—FOR HIGH SCHOOL CONTEST—CONTEST No. 2

The procedure for judging the two divisions of high school students shall be the same as in Contest No. 1—except that the two winners from each division of the contest should be sent by county superintendents to the State Department of Education.

From these essays the State Department of Education shall submit the twenty-five best essays from that state to the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission by May 15th, 1938.

This Commission will select cash prize winners from each state of the territory and will award scholarship prizes in accordance with population of state and number of colleges and universities in each state which offer scholarship prizes.

METHOD OF JUDGING COLLEGE ENTRIES

Each college will appoint its own board of judges of its own entries and the board shall choose the best entry made by a male and the best entry made by a female student and shall submit them to the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission (Federal), Marietta, Ohio, by May 15th, 1938.

GENERAL

This division of the work of judging does not place an extreme burden on anyone and yet is fair.

The Commission assumes no responsibility for the failure of any of the judges to perform their functions properly and promptly.