R EC RE A TION. 



A Novel 



Educational 



Competition 



COMBINES PLEASURE WITH INFORMATION 

 AND MENTAL TRAINING 



The Century Co. announces an 

 educational competition which will 

 arouse very general interest. Three 

 examination papers, of fifty ques- 

 tions each, have been prepared ; the 

 competitors have a month to answer 

 each set. The prizes are : $500 for 

 the best answer, $100 for the second 

 best, $50 for the third, two of $25 

 each for the fourth and fifth, and 

 thirty of $10 each for the next thirty 

 in order of merit ; also a further and 

 special prize of $500. 



'T'HE QUESTIONS impart knowl- 

 ■ edge and lead to a habit of inves- 

 tigation that will be of value through 

 life. If you gain first prize, the knowl- 

 edge you have acquired will be worth 

 more to you than the $500 

 you receive. But whether 

 you win that prize or not, 

 you learn to concentrate 

 your mind, sharpen your 

 wits, and secure most val- 

 uable information. 



Do not cease your education when 

 you leave school or college; keep on 

 learning. Horace Greeley said of Lin- 

 coln that his success lay largely in the 

 fact that he acquired new knowledge 

 daily and therefore broadened. Get 

 the information that is in these ques- 

 tions. They are not school-book kind ; 

 they deal with facts that men, women, 

 boys and girls ought to know. No 

 university extension lectures can help 

 you as these questions do, because the 

 lectures deal with theoretical 

 knowledge, these questions 

 with practical knowledge. 



Dumb-bells and bicycles 

 may be equally useful in 

 physical development, yet 

 a thousand persons ride 



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Pleasure am 



Education 



Combined 



University 

 Extension 

 Surpassed 



their wheels for one that uses dumb-bells. The reason is perfectly evident. Bicycle 

 riding combines pleasure with exercise ; the use of dumb-bells is drudgery. So 

 with these questions ; they combine pleasure with mental exercise. You cannot 

 start work on the first one without continuing on to the last, and when you finish 

 them you are repaid a hundred fold. 



An analysis of the questions shows that they deal with a very large number 

 of different points. That is, in answering fifty questions you investigate fifty 

 subjects and touch upon hundreds of others. History and literature, the Bible 

 and Homer, travel, machinery and law, operas and music, Shakspere and Scott, 

 Paris and Boston, art and architecture, earthquakes and the heavens, 

 cards and the stage, Napoleon and the North American Indians, the ^^00 



Amazon and the Mississippi, questions of home and of business — all ^ 



these and a multitude of others are included. Thus, in addition to the fITM 



pleasure and the mental training, comes the new knowledge that will # 



broaden you as Greeley said it broadened Lincoln. On request, we will I F1ZC 



forward you sample questions and full particulars of the competition. 



If you do not possess a set of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, ad- 

 dress us and we will send your name to one of the few clubs that are now being 

 formed, each member of which secures a set at a reduction of over 40 per cent, 

 and has the privilege of paying for it in small monthly payments. 



THE CENTURY CO. d>* k*, New York 





