Bell Prize Increased to $300

The Helen Choate Bell Prize for merit in the field of American Literature has this year been increased to $300 through a number of special subscriptions recently received. This prize, founded by friends of Mrs. Helen Choate Bell, who died in 1918, to commemorate her connection with American Literature, is open to any student in the University or in Radcliffe College. It will be offered for the best essay of from five thousand to ten thousand words on a subject in American Literature, approved by the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Dean Briggs. Excellence in form as well as in substance will be required. Theses in college courses and chapters from theses submitted for the degree of Ph.D. may be accepted; but no essay submitted for any other prize in the same college year is eligible. Essays are to be left at University 10 any time before May 1. They should be signed with an assumed name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the author. The prize may be withheld if no competitor appears to deserve it.