The following subjects in science and classics have been chosen for the Bowdoin Prize dissertations. The subjects in History, Philosophy and Literature will be chosen within a few days.

Subjects in Science.1. The relation of the laboratory tests of structural materials to the full sized parts actually used in engineering structures.

2. Methods and results of experiments in Physics and Chemistry at very low temperatures.

3. The hypothsis of electrolytic dissociation.

4. Affinities of the Mycetozoa.

5. The experimental evidence for the inheritance of acquired characters in organisms.

6. The origin of coral islands.

7. The classification of coastal plains.

Subjects in the C assics.1. The new mines of Sophron in the light of recent discoveries.

2. The higher liberal education in Greece in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B. C.

3. Types of character in the New Comedy of the Greeks, illusted from the characters of Theophrastus.

4. Horace and Virgil as the exponents of Roman patriotism and religion.

5. Demagogues in Republican Rome.

6. Roman ideals of literary culture.

7. Claudian and Dryden.