UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES PRIZE AWARDS

The award of 27 academic prizes totalling $5,155 to 42 people was announced today by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as follows:

The Bechtel Prize in Philosophy of $100, awarded to a student in philosophy for the best essay on an approved subject, was won by Rulon S. Wells III, of Salt Lake City, Utah, a third-year graduate student, for an essay on the subject "Linguistic Particularism."

The Helen Cheate Bell prize of $400, for the best essay on a subject in American Literature, was divided between C. Conrad Wright 5G, of Cambridge, Mass., for an essay on "Edwards and the Armininas on the Freedom of the Will," and Stephen E. Whicher, of Amherst, Mass., or his essay "Emerson's Scepticism."

Bennet Prize

The James Gordon Bennett Prize of $125, for the best essay on American domestic or foreign policy, was won by Robert D. Hill '42, of Wilmore, Ky, for an essay on "James Clark McReynolds, Prosecutor and Judge."

The Philo Sherman Bennett Prize of $50, for the best essay on the principles of free government, was won by Donald H. Shaw '43, of Oelwein, Iowa, for an essay "Congressional Reapportionment and Redistricting in the States in 1941 and 1942."

The Circolo Italiano Prize of $20, for the best essay on a subject in the field of Italian culture, was won by Brooks Wright '43, of Cambridge, Mass., for an essay on "The Cabalistic Studies of Pico della Mirandola."

The Louis Curtis Prize of $100, awarded to a Senior for outstanding work in Latin, was won by Gurdon W. Wattles '42, of Hollywood, Calif.

The Dante Prize of $40, for the best essay on a subject drawn from the life or works of Dante, was divided among Sarah C. Alexander, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Dante in Relation to Landscape Poetry"; Joanna H. Leowe, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Imagery in the First Two Cantiche of the Divine Comedy"; and Florence M. Newman, of Brya Mawr, Pa., for her essay "The Francesca da Rimini Episode in English Literature."

Broadwater Wins Composition Award

The Harvard Monthly Prize of $40, "to that student in the most advanced course in English composition who shows greatest literary promise," was won by R. Bowden Broadwater '42, of Oakland, Md.

The History and Literature Prize of $50, for a member of the Junior Class "who shows the greatest promise among undergraduates who concentrate in the field of History and Literature," was divided between Richard J. Hyman '43, of Malden, Mass., and Robert S. Schwantes '43, of Lancaster, Wis.

The Winthrop Sargent Prize of $150, for the best essay "relating to Shakspere or Shakspere's Work," was won by Richard Wincor '42, of New York City, for an essay "Shakespeare's Festival Plays."

A George B. Sohier Prize of $250, for the best honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney, Jr. '42, of London, England, for his thesis, "Alien Plain: A Study of Primitive Feeling in Rudyard Kipling's Verse."

The Toppan Prize of $250, for the best essay on a subject in Political Science, was won by Joseph E. Charles, of Cambridge, Mass. (Teaching Fellow), for an essay "The Party Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy."

The John A. Walz, Jr. Prize of $25, awarded to "the concentrator in German who passes the best divisional examination toward the end of his Senior year," was won by Eugen F. Burgstaller '43, of West Roxbury, Mass.

The Philip Washburn Prize of $140, for the best Senior honors thesis in History, was won by Eugene L. Bondy '42, of New Rochelle, N. Y., for an essay "The Militia Problem in Massachusetts During the War of 1812."

Book Prize to Millen-

The Barrett Wendell Prize, consisting of books, for the Sophomore majoring in History and Literature "who has made the most notable progress during the year," was won by Roy McM. Millen '44, of Coin, Iowa.

The Wister Prize of $70, for the student "who passes his examinations with the highest combined average in mathematics and music," was won by Frederic Cunningham, Jr. '43, of Springfield Center, N. Y.

The John Osborne Sargent Prize of $200, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, was awarded to Vincent A. P. Cronin '45, of Boston, Mass.

The Robert Fletcher Rogers Prizes of $35 (first prize) and $15 (second prize), for the best papers presented before the Mathematical Club during the academic year 1941-42, were awarded respectively to George H. Handelman, first-year graduate student, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Frank M. Stewart, third-year graduate student, of Auburn, N. Y.

World Peace Prize

The Edward M. Chase Prize of $200 for the best essay on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace, was won by Bernard Fensterwald, Jr. '42, of Nashville, Tenn., for his essay "The Politics of Aerial Disarmament."

The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $170 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, was won by F. Gar- ner Ranney '42, of London, England, for his elegy "Nisi Dominus, Frustra."

The Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75, for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, was won by Charles E. Kitchin '42, of Winchester, Mass., for an essay "An Interpretative Analysis of the 'Romantic Spirit' in Las Novela Ejempiares of Cervantes."

The Jeremy Belknap Prize of $50, for the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College, was awarded to Kalman Novak '45, of Cambridge, Mass.

The Bohemian Club Prize of $75, for as original musical composition, was awarded to Allen D. Sapp, Jr., of Brya Mawr, Pa., for a sonaia for cello and piano.

The Francis Boot Prize of $100 for the best composition in concerted vocal music, was won by Adrian J. P. La Rue, second-year graduate student, of Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Francis Sales Prize of $75 for proficiency in Spanish composition, was awarded to Robert A. Potash '42, of Cambridge, Mass.

Bowdoin Prizes

Bowdoin Prizes for dissertations in English and Greek and Latin were awarded as follows: $300 to Walter J. Bate (Proctor), of Richmond, Ind., for an essay "A Rejection of Intensity: The Prosodic Development of Keats from May to September, 1819"; $300 to Stephen E. Whicher (Teaching Fellow), of Amherst, Mass., for an essay entitled "Emerson and the Divinity School Address"; $300 to John E. Sawyer, third-year graduate student, of Worcester, Mass., for an essay "Pierre Laval: The Diplomacy of Disaster 1934-1936"; $300 to Edwin Hewitt (Teaching Fellow), of Chicago, III., for an essay "On a Novel Type of Topological Space"; $500 to Monroe Engel '42, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., for an essay "Gerhard Manley Hopkins: Inscapist Poet"; $200 to Howard G. Hageman '42, of Albany, N. Y., for an essay "The Development of Eros in the Pre-Socratics and in Plato"; $100 to Robert B. Broadwater '42, of Oakland, Md., for an essay "The Importance of Imagery in Henry James' Later Novels"; and $150 to Gordon M. Messing, fourth-year graduate student, of Chattanooga, Tenn., for a portion of his dissertation submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in Classical Philology.

The Coolidge Debating prizes of $100 each, for the two best speakers in the trials for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate debates, were awarded to Arthur H. Northrup '42, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Thomas J. O'Toole, first-year law student, of Newton, Mass