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Dunster Senior Wins $500 Bowdoin Prize For Original Writing

Burton D. Hersh '55 of Dunster House has won the $500 Bowdoin prize for the best undergraduate prose with his essay, "Details of Forms; A Study of Means and Ends."

The second Bowdoin prize of $300 went to Eliot S. Vesell '55 of Eliot House for his essay, "The Age of the Sublime: A study in the derivations and continuities of the picturesque imagination in American Fine Arts and Literature 1800-1850."

Michael J. Cambern '55 of Winthrop House took the third prize of $100 with "Les Illuminations: A Study of Form and Color in Rimbaud's Poetry."

Alexander Gelley '55 of Adams House received Honorable Mention for his essay, "The Perfect Ceremony of Shakespeare's Sonnets."

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