Bowdoin Essay Prizes.

A new method of awarding the Bowdoin Essay Prizes will be followed this year and in 1901-1902. A distinction will be made in favor of undergraduate work, for which there will be a first prize of $250 and a second prize of $200. For the best essay by a member of the Graduate School there will be a prize of $300. In judging the essays, both the literary quality and the substance will be considered.

The undergraduate contest will be open to all men, including Freshmen, who are in regular standing in Harvard College or the Lawrence Scientific School. The essays may be on any subject whatever, provided it is approved by the chairman of the Bowdoin Prize Committee. Theses forming part of the regular work of courses may be offered with the consent of the instructors concerned, or, subject to such consent, may be re-written for the prize competition. The graduate competition will be open to all holders of academic degrees, who have been in the Graduate School for a full year within the period 1897-1900. As in the case of the undergraduate essays, the topics or subjects must be approved in advance by the Prize Committee. In 1900-1901 the range of the graduate essay subjects will be limited to philosophy, political science and history, and in 1901-1902 to mathematics and natural science. Essays that have been presented for other prizes or for academic degrees elsewhere than at Harvard College, will not be accepted.

The winners of prizes--undergraduates and graduates--will be named in the Commencement programme of June 27, 1900; and their essays will be read in public. Essays are not to exceed 10,000 words; they must be handed to the Recording Secretary of the University on or before April 1, 1900, and must conform to the rules printed on page 454 of the University Catalogue for 1898-99.