The subjects proposed for essays in competition for the Dante Prize are as follows:
1. Recent studies of the text of Dante,- especially those of Witte, Moore, and Tauber.
2. The allegory of the eighth and ninth cantos of the Inferno; the City of Dis, its demons, the Furies, Medusa, the opposition to the entrance of the Poets; the heavenly messenger.
3. Petrarch's personal and literary attitude toward Dante.
The announcement of the Bowdoin Prizes appeared in the CRIMSON of December 5.
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The detailed regulations concerning all of the prizes are the same as last year and may be found in the last Catalogue.