We call the attention of all members of the University and especially those who are doing work in the department of History and Political Science, to the important announcement concerning the prizes which are open to competition this year. In a former issue we suggested that one of the best ways of meeting the recent call for a more public and general recognition of high scholarship in the University was by giving a greater prominence to the competition for prizes and by otherwise encouraging that competition. This end promises to be met by the system announced today whereby the theses required in the courses in History and Political Science may be written in competition for prizes as well. Such a system not only is sure to bring about a much more active competition for the prizes, and to increase their value proportionately, but also will serve as a very healthy stimulus to the courses in which the theses are written. Thus the work done in future for prizes will not mean so much time taken away from the equally important prescribed work, as was inevitable before; and to the pecuniary inducement which alone might have appealed to a man will be added that of obtaining honoralbe recognition in a line of work in which he has a genuine, scholarly, interest.