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$5,180 IN PRIZE MONEY IS OFFERED TO SCHOLARS

Thirty-Two Prizes, Mostly Cash, Are to Be Awarded to Winners in Fifteen Various Academic Fields

English

George B. Sohller Prize

"For the best thesis presented by a successful candidate for Honors in English or in Modern Literature." The competitors may be in either Harvard College or Radcliffe College. Theses should be submitted not later than March 15, $250.

Helen Choate Bell Prize

Open to any student in the University or in Radcliffe College and is awarded for merit in the field of American Literature. (The terms of competition are fixed from time to time by the Department of English, with the approval of the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory or his representative.) For this year it is offered for the best essay of from 5000 to 10,000 words on a subject in American Literature. Excellence in form as well as in substance will be required. Theses in college courses and chapters from the ses submitted for the degree of Ph.D. may be accepted; but no essay submitted for any other prize in the same college year is eligible. Essays may be submitted to Dr. Sprague at Warren House on or before April 1. $300.

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Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize

For the best poem on any subject approved by a committee of the Department of English. The competition for this prize is open to all undergraduates, who must file the subjects of their poems at Warren House not later than March 1. Manuscripts should be submitted not inter than April 1. $125. Silver Modal.

Harvard Monthly Prize

Awarded to that student in the most advanced course in English Composition who shows the greatest literary promise. The prize is awarded by a committee of which the instructor in charge of the course is chairman. $50.

The Ruskin Prize

For the best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin. The competition is open to all students in the University.

Winthrop Sargent Prize

For the best essay "relating to Shakepere or Shakepere's work." The competition is open to all students in the University. Subjects for this competition should have been approved by Professor Kittredge before February 1st. Essays must be in his hands on on before April 1st. $150.

French

Jeremy Belknap Prize

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