WILL AWARD BELL AND BOWDOIN ESSAY PRIZES

The University office has announced ten prizes to be awarded in the Spring, nine Bowdoin Prizes from the bequest of Governor James Bowdoin of the class of 1745 which was increased, in 1901, by George S. Bowdoin, and the Helen Choate Bell prize which was founded in 1919. The annual competition for the Topiarian Club Trophy will also open today and will last until 5 o'clock on Saturday, January 5.

The nine Bowdoin prizes are for essays in English and Latin or Greek, and for translations into Greek and Latin, to be submitted on or before April 1, five being for undergraduates, and four open only to holders of degrees, who are now graduate students at Harvard or have been a year in residence in the University as late as the academic year 1922-23.

For undergraduates a first prizes of $250 and two second prizes of $100 are offered for essays in English, on any subject approved by Dr. A. H. Maynadier, chairman of the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes.

Three prizes of $200 each are offered to graduate students, for essays of not more than 15,000 words and of high literary merit, belonging to one of the following special fields of learning: English, Fine Arts, Music, History, Government, and Economics, Business Administration, Philosophy, and Education.

Two prizes of $50 each are offered for translations to be written by undergraduates in regular standing in 1923-24, and a $100 prize is offered for an original essay in either Latin or Greek to a full year resident of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences within the period 1922-24.

The Helen Choate Bell Prize of $275 will be awarded for the best essay on a subject in American literature approved by Dean Briggs. The competition is open to all students in the University and Radcliffe College, and closes on May 1, 1924.

The competition for the Topiarian Club Trophy will consist of a given problem in landscape design, and students of the School of Landscape Architecture who wish to enter drawings should apply to Professor H. V. Hubbard '97.