The annual competition for the Bowdoin Prizes, Harvard's oldest and most distinguished literary honor, was announced recently.

The English essay competition offers three prizes of $600, $400, and $150 to undergraduates, and three prizes of $500 each to graduate students. The Classics competition gives two awards of $150 each to undergraduates for translations into Greek and Latin, and two prizes of $300 each to graduates for original essays in Greek and Latin.