BOWDOIN ESSAYS WILL BE DUE ON APRIL THIRD

Announcements have been posted concerning the annual competition for the Bowdoin Prizes, among the oldest prizes in the University, and the closing date for handing in manuscripts this year to the secretary of the committee on the prizes at 17 University Hall is April 3. Contrary to general opinion, it was revealed at the office of the secretary that Sophomores and Juniors have often won these prizes in the past, and all students are advised to consider entering the competition.

The prizes are offered on a relative basis. No one will get a prize unless his essay is considered of worthy caliber, even although he may win the contest. As a result of this ruling, one $300 prize was not awarded last year, although several men received honorable mention. Translation prizes are not affected by this ruling.

G. H. Maynadier '89, Assistant Professor of English, is chairman of the Dissertations in English Committee, and C. N. Jackson '98, Professor of Greek and Latin, is chairman of the Dissertations in Greek and Latin Committee. Every man to win a place in these competitions is awarded, in addition to the monetary prize, a bronze medal and a sheep skin decorated by an old engraving and signed by the President of the University.

Last year in the undergraduate contest, Gilbert Kahn '32 won the $500 prize with an essay on "The Poetry of Thomas Hardy," while in the graduate contest David Fleisher 2G took first place with "Bacon's Essays and Castiglione's Courtier'." W. F. Bruce '31 also won a $300 graduate prize with his essay on "Stereoismerism of Oximes."

In the classics, F. M. Snowden, Jr. '32 won a $75 prize for his translation into Attic Greek of a passage in J. Bournet's "Greek Philosophy."