A first prize of &100 and a second prize of &50 will be awarded for the two best essays submitted by January 15 to the judges of the third Annual Prize Essay Contest which was recently announced by the Library Committee of the Union.

The prizes for this contest will be financed through a gift that has been received by the Committee as in the case of the former contests.

Last year the first prize was awarded to C. M. McConn, who was in the Graduate School at the time, for an essay entitled "The Breadth of Time". The second prize was won by M. A. Kister Jr., who was then an out of course candidate for degree, for an essay entitled "A Modern Novel."

The conditions of the contest this year are as follows:

1. Any subject may be written upon that lends itself to treatment as an essay.

2. A first prize of one hundred dollars and a second prize of fifty dollars are offered.

3. The writing will be judged for its literary quality and should be of the sort that might appear in any first class periodical.

4. The successful manuscripts become the property of the Harvard Union, unless otherwise decided by the Library Committee.

5. The manuscripts submitted must be typewritten.

6. An upper limit of twenty-five hundred words is set, and the manuscripts submitted must definitely state at the end the count of the number of words.

7. Manuscripts shall be due at the Library of the Harvard Union on or before 11 P. M. on Monday, January 15, 1923.

8. Each manuscript must be indorsed with a pseudonym and accompanied by a sealed envelope indorsed on the outside with the pseudonym and containing the real name of the writer inside.

9. The judges will be announced in the near future.

10. Any infringement of these conditions shall be deemed sufficient consideration to disqualify a manuscript from the competition.