Lake Mohonk Conference Prize

The Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration has again offered a prize of $100, donated by C. D. Pugsley '09, for the best essay on "International Arbitration" by an undergraduate man student of any college or university in the United States or Canada. The contest will close March 15, 1913.

Conditions of Contest.

The conditions of the contest are as follows:

Each essay should show an understanding of the nature and history of international arbitration apart from and in connection with the Hague Conferences and Hague Court, and may also refer to (or, subject to the above requirement, emphasize) such subjects as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the proposed Judicial Arbitration Court, Good Offices, Mediation and Commissions of Inquiry, as treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes" adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, and in the "Draft Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court" agreed to by the second Hague Conference.

The term "undergraduate student" applies to one who, in a college or scientific school, is doing the work prescribed for the degree of bachelor, or its technical equivalent.

Essays must not exceed 5000 words (a length of 3000 words is suggested as desirable) and must be written, preferably in typewriting, on one side only of plain paper of ordinary size (8 x 10 1-2 inches). Manuscripts not easily legible will not be considered.

Each essay should bear a nom de plume or arbitrary sign which should be included in an accompanying letter giving the writer's real name, college, class and home address. Both letter and essay should reach H. C. Phillips, Secretary, Lake Mohonk Conference, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., not later than March 15, 1913. Essays should be mailed flat (not rolled).

The award of the prize will be made at the Lake Mohonk Conference in May, 1913, to which the winner will be invited.

For additional information, references, etc., address the Secretary of the Conference.

Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prizes.

The Hart, Schaffner and Marx prizes for essays on economic subjects, aggregating $2000, are again offered this year. Below are printed the terms:

All essays must be in by June 1, 1913, at a place to be announced later.

Contestants in Class B must be undergraduates of American colleges at the time the papers are submitted.

Class A includes any other American without restriction--no age limit; no college degree necessary.

The prizes for Class A will be a first prize of $1000 and a second prize of $500; for Class B a first prize of $300 and a second prize of $200.

Some of the subjects suggested are: agricultural education; a lumber policy for the United States; what form of education should be advised for the elevation of wage-earners from a lower to a higher industrial status in the United States; the effect of the industrial awakening of Asia upon the economic development of the West.

Further information can be had from Professor J. Laurence Laughlin at the University of Chicago, who is Chairman of the Committee of Awards.