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Prizes Are Given to Epstein, Haas, Helson, McArthur

Henry B. Helson '47, Samuel I. Epstein '50, Herbert C. McArthur '45, and Antonio G. Haas '44 are the recipients of prizes not previously announced by the Faculty.

Most lucrative plum--the George B. Sohier Prize, worth $250 for the "best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature"--went to McArthur for his essay "Saints in Ambush." Haas was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize--$75--for his essay "The Monk and Don Juan" in the field of Spanish Literature of the Golden Age.

Helson, a Math major, received the Wister Prize--$65--as the Senior with the highest record in the fields of Music of Mathematics, while Epstein earned the Elizabeth Wilder Prize--worth $40--for turning in the best mid-year examination paper in Elementary German.

No awards have been made this year of the Jeremy Belknap, Bohemian Club, Francis Boott, Circolo Italiano, Louis Curtis, Dante, Harvard Monthly, George Arthur Knight, and Ruskin Prizes, nor of the first prize in the Susan B. Anthony award in Comparative Literature.

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