2. Literary Criticisms at Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries B. C.

3. The Life and Character of Titus Pomponius Atticus.

4. A Criticism of the style of Tacitus.

5. Ancient Roman Villas and the Life in them.

6. Claudius Claudianus and the Pagan Literary Reaction of the 5th century A.D.

(b) One prize (not more than one hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars) for the best translation of the following passage, written by students of more than one year's standing in any department of the University who have never received an academic degree: -

A translation into Greek of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Part I., last nine paragraphs, beginning, "The talk that they had."

IV. Two prizes (not more than one hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars each) for the best dissertations on any of the following subjects, written by students of more than one year's standing in any department of the University who have never received an academic degree: -

1. The present state of the art of protecting buildings from lightning.

2. Fermentation.

3. Alternation of generations in plants and animals.

5. The origin of variations in organism.

5. The iron ore deposits of the United States.

6. The natural history of rivers.

Dissertations offered by Seniors of 1891-'92 must be deposited with the Dean of Harvard College on or before Commencement, 1892. All other dissertations for these prizes must be deposited with the Dean of Harvard College on or before the first of November, 1892. On the title-page must be written an assumed name and a statement of the writer's standing. - i.e., whether he is a graduate or an undergraduate; if an undergraduate, to what class he belongs and to what department of the University. Under cover with the dissertation must be sent a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with his assumed name.

The dissertations must be written upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that they may be bound up without injury to the writing. The sheets on which the dissertation is written must be securely stitched together.

The dissertations must not contain more than 10,000 words.

The authors of successful dissertations are invited to read them in public at a place and at a time to be designated by the Dean.