The award of 27 academic prizes totalling $5,155 to 42 people was announced today by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as follows:

The Bechtel Prize in Philosophy of $100, awarded to a student in philosophy for the best essay on an approved subject, was won by Rulon S. Wells III, of Salt Lake City, Utah, a third-year graduate student, for an essay on the subject "Linguistic Particularism."

The Helen Cheate Bell prize of $400, for the best essay on a subject in American Literature, was divided between C. Conrad Wright 5G, of Cambridge, Mass., for an essay on "Edwards and the Armininas on the Freedom of the Will," and Stephen E. Whicher, of Amherst, Mass., or his essay "Emerson's Scepticism."

Bennet Prize

The James Gordon Bennett Prize of $125, for the best essay on American domestic or foreign policy, was won by Robert D. Hill '42, of Wilmore, Ky, for an essay on "James Clark McReynolds, Prosecutor and Judge."

The Philo Sherman Bennett Prize of $50, for the best essay on the principles of free government, was won by Donald H. Shaw '43, of Oelwein, Iowa, for an essay "Congressional Reapportionment and Redistricting in the States in 1941 and 1942."

The Circolo Italiano Prize of $20, for the best essay on a subject in the field of Italian culture, was won by Brooks Wright '43, of Cambridge, Mass., for an essay on "The Cabalistic Studies of Pico della Mirandola."

The Louis Curtis Prize of $100, awarded to a Senior for outstanding work in Latin, was won by Gurdon W. Wattles '42, of Hollywood, Calif.

The Dante Prize of $40, for the best essay on a subject drawn from the life or works of Dante, was divided among Sarah C. Alexander, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Dante in Relation to Landscape Poetry"; Joanna H. Leowe, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Imagery in the First Two Cantiche of the Divine Comedy"; and Florence M. Newman, of Brya Mawr, Pa., for her essay "The Francesca da Rimini Episode in English Literature."

Broadwater Wins Composition Award

The Harvard Monthly Prize of $40, "to that student in the most advanced course in English composition who shows greatest literary promise," was won by R. Bowden Broadwater '42, of Oakland, Md.

The History and Literature Prize of $50, for a member of the Junior Class "who shows the greatest promise among undergraduates who concentrate in the field of History and Literature," was divided between Richard J. Hyman '43, of Malden, Mass., and Robert S. Schwantes '43, of Lancaster, Wis.

The Winthrop Sargent Prize of $150, for the best essay "relating to Shakspere or Shakspere's Work," was won by Richard Wincor '42, of New York City, for an essay "Shakespeare's Festival Plays."

A George B. Sohier Prize of $250, for the best honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney, Jr. '42, of London, England, for his thesis, "Alien Plain: A Study of Primitive Feeling in Rudyard Kipling's Verse."

The Toppan Prize of $250, for the best essay on a subject in Political Science, was won by Joseph E. Charles, of Cambridge, Mass. (Teaching Fellow), for an essay "The Party Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy."