University Gives Prizes to Five From Washburn, Conant Funds

The University continued its annual prize-awarding spree by announcing the winners of two more grants for academic achievement during the past year.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the award of the Philip Washburn Prize for 1957-58 to David Ted Roy '59 for his thesis entitled, "Kuo Mo-Jo: The Pre-Marxist Stage." The Prize is the income from the fund.

Also awarded was one of the most unique prizes in the University, an award, in the specific area of General Education, which is named after President-emeritus Conant whose Committee on General Education put the present system into effect.

This prize is given for the best papers written for any one of the various Natural Science courses.

The first prize, two-thirds of the income from the fund, went to Anita O. Bullard '61 for an essay entitled, "William Blake and the Case against 'Bacon, Newton & Locke.'"

Second prize was given to Robert A. Hatfield '59 for his essay, "A History of the Crab Nebula."

The two honorable mentions went to Judith A. Curtis '61 for her essay, "An Inquiry into the Coexistence of Science and Poetry," and to Carla Washburne '59 for her essay, "Dialogue Concerning Newtonian Synthesis."