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ESSAY PRIZES OFFERED TO HARVARD STUDENTS

Calvert Round Table Holds Contest With $100 First Prize-Subject is on Religious Understanding

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Three prizes are offered to students at Harvard University in an essay to promote better understanding between different religious and racial groups, sponsored by the Calvert Round Tables of Boston. Essays, not less than 2000 or more than 2500 words, are to be forwarded to Assistant Professor C. C. Brinton. Dunster House J 24, not later than April 15, 1932. One hundred dollars will be awarded to the winner, fifty dollars as second prize and twenty-five dollars third prize.

Any student, either undergraduate or a member of a graduate school, may compete for these prizes. Essays are to be submitted unsigned, but bearing an assumed name.

The complete subject is "What Can Be Done to Promote Better Understanding between Different Religious and Racial Groups". A similar contest is to be held, and prizes awarded. At Boston College. Boston University and Wellesley College. In announcing its plans, the Calvert Round Table declares that it has established the contests, because of a "feeling that national unity may be seriously threatened by religious and racial misunderstanding", and because of the organization's desire to promote good will, appreciation of each other's sincere spiritual convictions, and the elimination of unworthy religious and racial prejudices."

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