Bowdoin Prize Subjects.

The following is a list of the subjects recommended by the committees on Bowdoin Prizes and approved by the Faculty, from which those who try for one of the prizes during the year 1895-96 may choose. The details as to when subjects and essays are due and all other regulations are in the University Catalogue which will appear in two or three weeks.

SUBJECTS IN HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE.1. The Augustinian and Calvinistic Ideal of the Church.

2. The encroachments of the French Monarchy upon Feudalism in the later Middle Ages.

3. The philosophical and religious writings of George John Romanes.

4. The functions of feeling in mental life.

5. The definition of Sociology.

6. The Austrian economists.

7. The Munroe Doctrine.

8. Robert Louis Stevenson.

9. The theory of educational values in the report of the "Committee of Fifteen."

SUBJECTS IN THE CLASSICS.(a).

1. The profession of the orator at Athens in the 5th and 4th century B. C.

2. The Asian and Attic styles in Roman oratory.

3. Party politics at Athens in 405 B. C.

4. The political situation at Rome in the year of Cicero's consulship.

5. The appearance to a stranger of an ancient Greek or Roman city as compared with that of an American modern one.

6. The educational methods satirized by Aristophanes in the clouds.

7. A comparison of the De Officis Ministrorum of St. Ambrose with the De Officiis of Cicero.

(b).

1. A translation into Greek from Butlers Analogy of Religion, Part 1, Chap. II, from the words, "Why are the authors of nature," to the end of the chapter.

2. An original essay in Latin of from 2000 to 2500 on any subject chosen by the competitor.

SUBJECTS IN SCIENCE.1. On the means for securing good acoustic properties in large lecture rooms.

2. On the discovery of Argon and Helium.

3. Recent synthetical work on the sugar group.

4. Phenomena of Polymorphism among the lower plants or animals.

5. Is the cell theory still tenable?

6. The relation between the rate of growth of the large cities of the world and their geographical position and geological environments.