PRIZES FOR ECONOMIC ESSAYS.

Four prizes ranging from $1000 to $200 have been offered to students of Harvard University for the best essays on a number of timely topics. The details of the contest were announced recently by Professor J. L. Laughlin of the University of Chicago, who is chairman of the committee in charge of the contest. The prizes will be given by Hart, Schaffner, and Marx.

Competitors are divided into two classes. Undergraduates of any American college may compete for a first prize of $300 and a second prize of $200. Any other American, without restriction, may compete for a first prize of $1,000 and a second prize of $500.

One of the subjects, which is now of particular interest because of the question of canal tolls is, "Ship subsidies by Indirection"; another is "Price Maintenance," which is being very widely discussed by commercial experts. The papers are to be submitted before June 1, 1915.