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Bowersock Awarded Conant Prize

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Glen W. Bowersock '57 has been awarded the James Bryant Conant prize for an original scscientific essay, "Fundamental Ideas of Space and Time in the Special Theory of Relativity," by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Bowersock will receive two-thirds of the annual income of the Conant fund. The second prize went to Jonathan Kozol '58 for his essay. "The Scientific Attitude; its Place in Democracy and in Society."

Other prizes announced by Sargent Kennedy, secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences include.

The Helen Choate Bell Prize of $400, won by Alice A. Cooper '56 for "The Superb Monotony: A Study of the Experience and Writings of Wait Whitman."

The Louis Curtis Prize of $100 for excellence in Latin, was won by Joseph A. Page '55.

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