Four men were awarded second prizes in the historic Bowdoin competition for dissertation in English according to an announcement made yesterday at the annual Phi Beta Kappa exercises; no first prize was awarded. The winners with the subjects of their dissertations are as follows: Garrett Mattingly '23 of Allegan, Mich., for his thesis "Eustace Chapuys: A Footnote to English History"; Theodore Morrison '23 of Lynn for his thesis "The Way to Confidence in Modern Thinking"; Frederick Theodore Pratt '22 of West Newton for his thesis, "British Policy at the Congress of Vienna"; Henry Jacob Friendly of Elmira, N. Y., for his thesis, "The Fall of Naples: An Episode in the Risorgimento".
Three Receive Honorable Mention
Three men were awarded honorable mention in the competition: Marvin Furber '22 of Buffalo, N. Y., for his thesis, "The Metaphysical Problem of Freedom"; Eliot Dole Hutchinson '22 of Lowell for his thesis, "Keats the Less Great"; Benjamin Arthur Trustman '22 of Boston for his theses, "French Syndicalism, with a Discussion of its Relation to the General Labor Movement in France" and "Judicial Review of the Decisions of the Immigration Authorities in Allen Deportation Cases".
Arthur Milton Young '22 of Philadelphia, Pa., won the Bowdoin Prize for a translation into Greek and honorable mention for a translation into Latin, the first a translation into Attic Greek of a passage from A. H. Haigh's "The Attic Theatre". The corresponding prize for Latin was won by Leon Medoff '22 of Philadelphia, Pa., with a translation into Latin of a passage from W. W. Fowler's "Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero".
The Sales Prize for a translation into Spanish was won by David Aymen Cohan ocC., of Roxbury with a passage from "Familiar Spanish Travels" by W. D. Howells '67; honorable mention went to Louis Solano '24 of Boston.
Marshall Ayres Best '23 of Evanston, Ill., won the Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of the twenty-second ode of the first book of Horace.
Honorable mention in the George B. Sohier Competition for the best thesis presented by a candidate for Honors in English and Modern Literature was awarded to Burke Boyce '22 of New York, N. Y., for his thesis "The Inheritance of the Sword Play in the Modern English and American Drama"; no prizes were awarded.
Frederick Theodore Pratt '22 of West Newton won the Philip Washburn Prize for an essay on an historical subject with the same thesis which he submitted in the Bowdoin competition, George Norbert Kates '22 of New York, N. Y. won honorable mention with his dissertation, "Francis I and the Italian Renaiseance".
The Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize in Mathematics was won by Marshall Harvey Stone '23 of New York, N. Y. receiving second prize; no first prize was awarded.
The following men received Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships: John Bridge '22 of Simsbury, Conn.; Eliot Dole Hutchinson '22 of Lowell, Mass.; Wheeler Glass Lovell '22 of Cleveland, Ohio; Garrett Mattingly '23 of Allegan, Mich.
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