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PRESIDENT-ELECT ANGELL TO VISIT

Four Union Prizes for Freshmen Will Be Awarded--Prize Winners of Union Essay Competition will Be Announced

James Rowland Angell, eminent psychologist and President-Elect of Yale University, will be the guest of honor at the first Annual Dinner to be given by the Union in the Trophy Room next Tuesday evening, May 24. President Elect Angell took his A.M. at the University of Michigan in 1891 and was awarded the same degree by that university a year later. After instruction in psychology at the University of Minnesota, he became connected with the University of Chicago in 1894 and held various positions there; finally, beginning in 1911, that of Dean of the University. He is the holder of other degress, several as a result of study at Vienna, Paris, and other foreign capitals; of the position of President of the American Psychology Association; of being a member of the committees of the Adjutant-General's Office on Classification of Personnel and Education and Special Training during the war. Prominent in educational circles, he is the author of a number of well-known psychological works. President-Elect Angell will make the principal address of the evening at the dinner.

Among the other speakers the Union has already arranged for, are President Lowell and R. K. Kane '22, Vice-President-Elect of the Union. Two or three prominent members of the Faculty will also speak and George Wigglesworth '74, President of the Union, will act as toastmaster.

During the progress of the dinner, the four Union prizes for Freshmen, based on scholastic rank and general class activities up to Mid-Years, will be awarded. The prize-winners in the Union's Best Essay Competition will also be announced. Over 75 essays were submitted in this competition and the judges have taken three months in reaching their decision. In addition to the regular prizes, the Governing Board of the Union will present each winner with a book, upon the fly-leaf of which will be inscribed a statement of the terms of his award.

A total of more than a hundred members of the Faculty and undergraduates have been invited to attend the dinner, which is the first of an annual series to be held in the coming years.

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