Award of Bowdoin Prizes

The award of prizes in the Bowdoin Prize essay contest among undergraduates and graduates was made last night as follows:

For undergraduates, the first prize of 8250 was awarded to R. H. Leavell '01, of Houston, Texas, for an essay on "The Race Problem in the South." L. G. O. Smith '00, of Buffalo, N. Y., won the second prize of 8200 for an essay on "The Practical Phillipines Question."

For graduates, the prize of 8300 was awarded to H. J. Edmiston 2G., of Lincoln, Nebraska, formerly an instructor at Cornell and at Princeton. The subject of his essay was, "Misinterpretations of Aristotle's Poetics."

Twenty-one essays were handed in to compete for the undergraduate prizes and six for the graduate prize. This is the largest number of competitors since the prizes were first offered. The rules of the Faculty require that the prize essays be read in public, wholly or in part, and the successful ones in the present competition will probably be read on Monday', May 28. Notice of this will appear in the University Calendar.