The announcement of the foundation of a prize for the best thesis by a candidate for honors in Modern Languages and English will be greeted with pleasure. The more numerous such prizes can be, the better, as they undoubtedly stimulate candidates, and form an additional reason for doing good work on theses that are now perhaps to a certain extent perfunctory. At Yale the Hugh Chambertain prize for the best entrance paper in Greek is considered a great honor. This new prize at harvard will have a similar effect and will also have the advantage of causing the production of good pieces of work with less expenditure of time by the student than would the foundation of a prize to be competed for by essays written expressly.
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