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Prizes Awarded During 1906-07

Following is a list of the prizes awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the year 1906-07:

The Bowdoin prizes, of $50 each, for dissertations in Greek and Latin, have been awarded to Harry Wheatland Litchfield '07, for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Green's "Short History of the English People," and to Frederick Livesey '08, for a translation into Latin of a passage in George Eliot's Middlemarch."

The Ricardo Prize Scholarship has been awarded to Aaron Prussian '08.

The Phillip Washburn Prize of $75 for the best thesis on an historical subject presented by a successful candidates for the degree of A.B. with distinction in history or political science, has been awarded to Harrison Clifford Dale '07.

A half prize of $50 was awarded to Alexander Holborn Spiers 3G. for an essay entitled "Characteristics of the Vita Nuova." This award was made from the Dante Prize of $100, for the best essay on a subject drawn from the life or works of Dante.

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The Sargent Prize of $100, for the best metrical translation of the thirty-seventh ode of the first book of Horace, has been awarded to Richard John Walsh '07.

The George B. Sohier Prize of $250, for the best thesis presented by a successful candidate for honors in English or in modern literature, has been divided between Hermann Hagedorn, Jr., '07, for a thesis on "The Plays of the English Comedians in Germany, and the Reasons underlying the Mutilation of the Elizabethan Originals," and Samuel Monteflore Waxman '07, for a thesis on "The Don Juan Legend in Literature."

The Jeremy Belknap Prize, for a translation into French of a passage from Matthew Arnold's Essay on Joubert," has been awarded to Edmund Charles Wendt '10.

A prize of $250, presented by an anonymous donor for the best essay on Franklin's works written by an undergraduate in History 10, has been awarded to Henry Raven Gilbert '09.

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