EDMONDS NAMED WINNER OF $100 THAYER PRIZE

The Thayer Prize of $100, which is given each year for the best piece of literary work appearing in the Harvard Advocate, has been awarded to W. D. Edmonds Jr. '26 for the college year 1924. The prize story selected was "Up River Mists and Lilacs" which was written by Edmonds for the March issue of last year.

The prize is donated by P. W. Thayer '14, of the Singapore Strait Settlements, who attracted considerable attention last year by establishing a Harvard Club of Singapore of which he was the President, executive committee and sole member. He has given the prize annually to be awarded for the best piece of writing in either verse or prose.

Mr. Thayer has appointed three judges in Cambridge to decide the winner each year. These are Professor C. T. Copeland '82 and Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the English department, and Mr. John Gallishaw '17, of the school for short-story writers. They announced their decision in favor of Edmonds story last night.

Edmonds is President of the Advocate and has been on the board for three years. He also won the Thayer Prize last year with his story, "St. Bon and the Organist of Midnight Mass" which appeared in the Christmas number of the 1923 Advocate.