Sixteen of the highest ranking Seniors were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the annual prize essay was announced last night at Dunster House.

The list of men elected follows: Cesar Lombardi Barber, of Bethseda, Maryland; Robert Olmstead Carleton, of Brooklyn, New York; Charles Edwin Carr, of Malden; Charles Richards Cherington, of New York; Aaron Arthur Cohen, of Long Brach, New Jersey; Harold Simson Cone, of Greensboro, North Carolina; William Frederick Ebling, of Osterville; Maurice Franks, of Lawrence; Charles Friedman Haas, of Chicago; Robert Peace Heller, of Brooklyn, New York; John Joseph Hession, of Dorchester; Thomas Harrison Hunter, of Cambridge; Reed Edwin Peggram, of Dorchester; Leo Rosenfield, of Chelsea; Richard Samuel Salant, of New York; and Robert Daniel Sard, of New York.

The following officers of the Society were also elected at last night's meeting: First Marshal, Donald Vincent McGranahan '35 of Malden; Second Marshal, George Lee Haskins '35 of Cambridge.

"A Study in Highway Economics" by Wilfred Owen '34, of Waban, was announced as the Phi Beta Kappa Prize Essay of 1934. This treatise has been published and will be reviewed soon in the CRIMSON by Edward S. Mason, Associate Professor of Economics.