Holcombe Wins Prize For History Volume

Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of Government, and Henry N. Smith, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, have been named the 1951 winners of the Bancroft Prizes, Dr. Grayson Kirk, vice president and acting head of Columbia University, announced yesterday. The awards carry a $2000 stipend each.

Holcombe won the prize, given annually for "the best books published in the preceeding year...in American History in its broadest sense, American Diplomacy or American International Relations," for his book "Our More Perfect Union." Professor Smith was honored for his book "Virgin Islands."