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Money, although sometimes the root of all evil, is not the root of industry as far as College undergraduates are concerned, a survey of annual prize competitions totaling $13,000 disclosed yesterday.
The most lucrative of many prizes which are now going begging for lack of takers is the $1,100 Bowdoin award for dissertations in English, which five prose-writers divide. Stringency of requirements cannot be the reason, for the essays must be "on any subject suitable for treatment in a literary form."
Suffering from a lack of esoteric competitors in book collecting are the William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold prizes, and any admirer of Romantic Eccentrics who would render his thoughts into prose can clean up in the John Ruskin Prize derby.
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