The award of prizes for the Hart, Schaffner & Marx economic essay contest has just been announced. The first prize which amounts to $1000 was awarded to Donald Earl Dunbar '13, of Spring field, who is at present in the first-year class of the Law School, being absent last year on a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship, won during his Senior year. These prizes are awarded in the first class to any graduate student of an American University, in the second class to any undergraduate of an American College or University. In the first class the prizes are $1000 and $500 respectively, while in the second class they are for $300 and $200. The subject of the prize-winning essay was "A Comparison of the Tin-Plate Industry of Wales and the United States." While in College, Dunbar won a Bowdoin prize with an essay on "The Tin-Plate Industry and its Relation to the Trariff." Last year the graduate prize was won by A. E. Suffern, of Columbia, the second prize being taken by G. P. Watkins, of Cornell. The judges for these essays are chosen from among a number of professors in the economic departments of Colleges all over the country, by the Hart, Schaffner & Marx Co.