Notes and News

A prize of $100 is offered by the Menninger Foundation for Psychiatric Education and Research for the best suggestion for a window display in a New York bank presenting the uses and purposes of psychiatry. The window is thirteen feet long, six feet high, and its deepest point about eight feet; it curves so that it is narrower at the ends. It will be seen chiefly by laymen and hence the display should be in the nature of an educational theme, convincingly and graphically presented. It should dramatize the way in which psychiatry can be or is being useful either in the present war emergency or in peace time.

The judges will be Dr. George Stevenson, Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Mr. Albert Lasker, of Lord and Thomas, and Dr. Lawrence Kubie.

Ideas should be submitted in detail, preferably with drawings or diagrams, directly to Dr. William C. Menninger, Director of The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, on or before January 31, 1943.

A professional affiliation between the Department of Nursing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University (Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in the city of New York) and the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the Hartford Retreat is announced jointly by Miss Margaret E. Conrad, Professor and Executive Officer of the Department of Nursing of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Dr. C. Charles Burlingame, Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute. The affiliation has been approved by the Columbia University Council and the Board of Directors of the Institute.

Under this affiliation, students with university degrees who are receiving advanced time credit in the Department of Nursing, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia, will undertake an intensive two months' course in neuro-psychiatric nursing at the Institute, under the direction of the Institute's medical and nursing staffs. The curriculum will include instruction in all