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.