The award of prizes in the Bowdoin Prize essay contest among under-graduates and graduates has been made as follows:

For undergraduates, the first prize of $250 was awarded to R. M. Green '02, of Boston. His essay was on "Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp." G. H. Montague '01, of Springfield, was awarded the second prize of $200 for an essay on "The Rise of the Oil Monopoly." For graduates, the prize of $300 was awarded to G. J. Blewett, Ph. D., of St. Thomas, Ont., for an essay on "The Philosophy of Spinoza with especial reference to its Historical Position."

R. M. Greene holds a John Harvard Scholarship. G. H. Montague is the holder of a Price Greenleaf Scholarship and a Ricardo Prize Scholarship. G. J. Blewett is a non-resident student of the GraduateSchool, living at present in Oxford, England. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto. He came to Harvard in 1897 and took his Ph.D. last year. He holds the Henry Bromfield Rogers Scholarship.

The prize essays will probably be read on June 18, at 7.30 p. m., in Harvard 1.