Essays for the Bowdoin Prizes

The method of awarding the Bowdoin Essay Prizes for 1900-1901 will be the same as that followed last year. 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. The rules governing the contest are as follows:

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 first approved by the Bowdoin Prize Committee, Professor F. W. Taussig, 2 Scott street. Essays are not to exceed 10,000 words; they must be handed to the Recording Secretary of the University before April 1, 1901, and must conform to the rules printed on page 470 of the University Catalogue for 1899-1900.

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. The range of the graduate essay subjects will be limited to philosophy, political science and history. Essays that have been presented for other prizes or for academic degrees elsewhere than at Harvard College, will not be accepted. As in the case of the undergraduate essays, the topics or subjects must be approved in advance by the Prize Committee, and handed in at the same time and place. The rules on page 470 of the last catalogue also apply as in the undergraduate contest.

The winners of prizes-undergraduates and graduates-will be named in the Commencement programme in June, and their essays will be read in public.

The prize-winners for last year with the subjects of their essays are given below:

Graduate prize-"Misinterpretations of Aristotle's Poetics," by H. J. Edmiston '99.

First undergraduate prize-"The Practical Philippine Question," by L. G. O. Smith, '00.

Second undergraduate prize-"The Race Problem in the South," by R. H. Leavell '01.