The Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on "International Arbitration" written by an undergraduate male student of any college or university in the United States or Canada.

For the purposes of this contest, "International Arbitration" includes any subject specifically treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes" adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, or in the "Draft Conventions Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court" agreed to at the second Hague Conference. C. D. Pugsley '09 is the donor of the prize, and the judges are: Hon. Oscar S. Straus, a member of the Hague Court; Hon. Elmer E. Brown, Chancellor of New York University; and Rear Admiral Chales H. Stockton, U. S. N., retired.

Essays must not exceed 5,000 words and must be written (preferably type-written) on one side of plain paper of ordinary letter size. Each contestant should append to his essay a list of books consulted, with specific references if possible.

The name of the writer must not appear on the essay, but a letter should accompany it, giving the writer's name, class, college, and home address. Both letter and essay should reach H. C. Phillips, Secretary Lake. Mohonk Conference, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., not later than March 15, 1912. Essays should be mailed flat.

Last year a similar prize brought in 61 essays. The prize was won by H. Posner, of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1910 it was won by G. K. Gardner '12.