The committee on Bowdoin prizes for literature announced last night that competitions are now open to graduates and undergraduates of the University.

For men who do not hold an academic degree or its equivalent, three prizes are offered for the best dissertations" in English. There is a first prize of $250 and two second prizes of $100 each. The committee may divide either or both of the second prizes; the first prize, however, will not be divided.

Candidates may choose any subject suitable for treatment in literary form which they desire, provided that the committee sanctions the selection. Theses that form part of the regular work in any of the regular work in any of the elective courses may be offered with the consent of the instructor.

For holders of degrees three $200 prizes are offered for essays of high merit. belonging to any of the following fields: Philosophy and Education, Biology, Geology. Anthropology, Forestry, and Foreign Languages and Literature. Candidates may select their own topics which must be approved in advance by, the committee. Doctoral theses of not more that 15000 words will be accepted.

A prize of $50 is to be awarded to the writer of the best translation into Attie Greek of the passage in chapter one of Walter Pater's "Plato and Platonism", beginning with the lines, "Plato has seemed to many" and ending with "elements of a preconceiyed opinion."

For the most literary translation into Latin of the conversation between Marcus Tullius Cicero and Quinctus Cicero in William Savage Landor's "Imaginary Conversations" there is a $50 award. The selection to be translated includes everything from the opening of the conversation to the Words "remembering longer among men."

All these must be handed in-to the Bowdoin committee on prizes for literature on or before April 1, 1927 at 20 University Hall.