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The contest required students to compose one sentence m the style and structure of E.B. White's opening sentence to Chapter XIII, "Ames' Crossing" m Stuart Little, specifically describing a place (or person) using an initial prepositional phrase followed by at least four relative clauses all beginning with either "where" or "who" and concluding with an independent clause. The sentence must be m present (not past) tense. Entries were judged on competence, originality, effectiveness, and artistry. This is E.B. White's sentence: "In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and higher than the houses, where the front yards were wide and pleasant and the back yards were bushy and worth finding out about, where the streets sloped down to the stream and the stream flowed quietly under the bridge, where the lawns ended m orchards and the orchards ended m fields and the fields ended m pastures and the pastures climbed the hill and disappeared over the top towards the wonderful sky, m this loveliest town of all towns, Stuart stopped to get a drink of sarsaparilla."
This is the second year for our paragraph contest in which students are invited to write a paragraph on any topic and in any style. The paragraph must not be longer than eleven sentences. Co-sponsored by the Learning Lab, the contest will be judged this year by members of the Learning Lab faculty. Each winner receives a twenty-five dollar gift certificate courtesy of CCP Bookstore.