Moffet Takes College Bowdoin Essay Prize: Three Graduates Win

Six Bowdoin prize-winners were selected over the weekend from a field of essays which the Committee on the Administration of the Bowdoin Prizes termed of lower quality than last year's manuscripts.

In the undergraduate division, James P. Moffet '51 won a first prize of $500 for his essay entitled, "The Relation of the laner and Outer Lives in the Works of Virginia Woolf." Henry Steele Commager Jr. '54 won the second prize of $300 and Thomas J. McGrath '52 won a $100 third prize.

The graduate Humanities prize of $300 went to Norman C. Rabkin 1G. Herbert 3 Spiro 3G won the Social Studies prize of the same sum, while James B. Hendrickson 2G won the Natural Sciences prize of $300.