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Prizes Now Open for Competition

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Essays for the Bowdoin prizes must be submitted to the Secretary of the Faculty, University 5, on or before April 1. The Bowdoin prizes are as follows: a first prize of $250 and two second prizes of $100 each, offered to undergraduates, and three prizes of $200, offered to graduates, for dissertations in English; two prizes of $50 each, offered to undergraduates for translations into Latin and Greek; and a prize of $100, offered to graduates, for an original essay in Latin or Greek.

Competitors for the Boylston prizes in elocution must enter their names with the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory on or before April 26. There are two first prizes of $60 each and three second prizes of $45 each.

Competition for the Dante prize closes May 1. The prize is $100 for an essay, by a student in any department of the University, or by a graduate of not more than three years standing, on a subject drawn from the life or the works of Dante.

The Sargent prize of $100, for the metrical translation of a 'lyric poem of Horace, is open to undergraduates of Harvard College and Radcliffe. Translations must be delivered to the Secretary of the Faculty by May 1.

The George B. Sohier prize is open to undergraduates of Harvard College, graduates in the Graduate School, and students in Radcliffe College. It has not been decided when competition for this prize will close.

Notice of intention to compete for the Sales prize, of $45, in Spanish must be sent to the Recorder on or before May 1. Competition is limited to students of Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School.

The Phillip Washburn prize of $75 is for a thesis on a historical subject presented by a successful candidate for the degree of A.B. with distinction in the Division of History and Political Science. The thesis must be submitted to the Chairman of the department of History and Government not later than May 15.

The subjects of essays for the Toppan, Summer and Bennet prizes in political science must be submitted to the Secretary of the Faculty not later than March 1. Manuscripts must be delivered on or before May 1.

The Toppan prize of $150, is open for competition to students of the Graduate School or of any of the professional schools who have received an academic degree, and to graduates of Harvard College of not more than three years standing. The Summer prize of $100, open to students of any department of the University, is for a dissertation on a subject connected with universal peace. The Bennet prize of $40, open only to members of the Senior class of the College and to special students in their third or fourth year of residence, who have taken courses in Political Science and English Literature, is for an essay on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest.

Compositions for the Francis Booth prize of $100, offered to undergraduates and to students of any graduate school for a composition in concerted vocal music, must be submitted to Professor J. K. Paine, chairman of the committee in charge of awarding the prize, by April 1. Notice of intention to compete for the Jeremy Belknap prize of $50, for a French composition by a first year student in the College or Scientific School, must be sent to the Recorder on or before May 1.

Candidates for the Ricardo prize scholarship must submit to the Chairman of the Department of Political Economy, not later than May 15, a statement of his previous studies. Each candidate will be called upon to write candidate will be called upon to write a thesis on economics and political science, in an examination to be held not later than June 1. The prize with an annual income of $350 will be awarded without regard to the pecuniary means of the applicant.

It has not been announced when the debate for the Pasteur medal will take place. The subject for the debate will be drawn from contemporary French politics. The date of the closing of the Lloyd McKim Garrison poetry prize of $100 and a silver medal, open to undergraduates, will be announced later

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