Bowdoin Prizes, 1885-86.

The following prizes have been awarded for dissertations: To Richard Aldrich, '85, $100. "Industrial Partnerships." W. F. Dana, A. B. 1884 of the Law School, $100. "The Optimism of R. W. Emerson." S. A. Eliot, A. B. 1884 of the Divinity School, $100. "The Relation of Forests to Rainfall and Water Supply."

E. C. Lunt, '86, $75. "Industrial Partnerships." S. Penrose, '86, $75. "Ruskin and his Place among English Writers."

F. E. E. Hamilton, '87, $50. "Boniface the Apostle to the Germans." A. D. Corey, '86, $50. "The Dionysiac Theatre." A. T. Dudley, '87, $50. "The Athenian Trireme as an Instrument of Naval Warfare." S. L. Harding, '86, $50. "The Relation of Forests to Rainfall and Water Supply."

The dissertation on the Dionysiac Theatre by "Antiquarius" was excluded from the competition for the prize, because of the large amount of borrowed matter which it contained.

The following appeared in the New Haven Union last Wednesday: "Some one in Harvard College claims to have discovered a printed account of a Yale-Harvard foot-ball game, played November 20, 1699." The account then follows.