St Nicholas [serial] . A NOVEMBER HEADING By far the greater number of contributors to the ProseCompetition, No. 117, chose to make their titles read: Why I Like Summer Better Than Autumn, and they allgive very good reasons for their preference. Perhapsmany of these reasons are summed up in the sentence withwhich one of the prize-winners opens his little essay : Itis quite natural that I should be prejudiced in favor ofsummer, for summer is the glorious time of vacation. Toall of us, the mere word vacation has a joyous sound. But life is not all playtime; and if it were, we shouldsoon grow as
St Nicholas [serial] . A NOVEMBER HEADING By far the greater number of contributors to the ProseCompetition, No. 117, chose to make their titles read: Why I Like Summer Better Than Autumn, and they allgive very good reasons for their preference. Perhapsmany of these reasons are summed up in the sentence withwhich one of the prize-winners opens his little essay : Itis quite natural that I should be prejudiced in favor ofsummer, for summer is the glorious time of vacation. Toall of us, the mere word vacation has a joyous sound. But life is not all playtime; and if it were, we shouldsoon grow as weary of too much play as we do of too muchwork or too much study* And autumn is a glorioustime, also, as is fully proven by several young writerswho are her ardent champions. So dont neglect to readand ponder what they say, as well as the heart-warming praises that most of the League members bestow upon the good old summer-time. Traveling was a popular subject among the youngphotographers, and we are sorry we have not
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