UNIVERSITY AWARDS 15 LITERARY PRIZES

The award of 15 prizes by the University was announced last night. The Bowdoin first prize in the competition for undergraduates has been won by Henry Jacob Friendly '23, of Elmira, N.Y., for an essay on "Church and State in England under William the Conqueror", and the second prize by Joseph Sill Clark Jr. '23, of Chestnut Hill, Pa., for an essay on "The Evolution of an Undergraduate". Friendly is first marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; Clark plays on the baseball team and holds the Francis H. Burr scholarship for "character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability".

The two Bowdoin prizes for graduate students, for "essays of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning", have been won by Christian Oliver Weber 1G., of Lincoln, Nebrasska, whose subject was "Modern Physics in the Light of the Metaphysics of Aristotle", and John Edwin Bakeless 4G., of Cambridge, who wrote on "The Migration of Insects, with special reference to Lepidoptera".

Marshall Ayers Best '23, of Evanston, III., is the winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize for the best poem by an undergraduate on a subject chosen by a committee of the English department. The subject for this year was "The Striker". Best is class poet of the Senior class and editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, and was recently president of the Advocate.

Radcliffe Freshman Wins Sargent Prize

The competition for the Sargent prize for the best metrical translation of one of the odes of Horace, open to Radcliffe as well as to University students, has been won this year by a Radcliffe Freshman, Miss E.C. Evans, of Cambridge.

Awards of the Bowdoin classical prizes are as follows: graduate, to Frederick Mason Carey 4G., of Somerville; undergraduate Greek, to Frederick La Motte Santee '24, of Wapwallopen, Pa.; undergraduate Latin, to Leon Medoff '23 of Philadelphia.

The Toppan biennial prize for the best essay of not more than fifteen thousand words on a subject in political science goes to William Leonard Langer 5G., of Cambridge; the Ricardo prize scholarship, for the best essay written in a special examination held for competitiors, to Howard Sylvester Ellis, 1G., of Iowa City, Iowa; and the Menorah Society prize, for the best essay by an undergraduate on the work and achievements of the Jewish people, to Abram Vossen Goodman '24, of Brookline.

Eliot Gilbert Fay '23, of Chelsea, is the winner of the Sales prize for proficiency in Spanish, and Nai Chen Shen 1G., of Chekiang, China, wins the Harvard Club of North China Prize for the best thesis on any subject connected with China.

The Billings prize in the Harvard Theological School, for improvement in pulpit delivery, goes to a first-year theological student, Robert Jules Raible, of Louisville, Ky.

The Toppan annual prize for the best doctoral thesis of the year on a subject in political science has been divided between John K. Wright, librarian of the American Geographical Society, New York, N.Y., and Henry M. Wriston of Wesleyan University, for their theses presented for the degree of Ph.D. at the University last year.