The Yale Lit. Medal.

The Yale Lit. Medal has just been awarded to Edward Boltwood '92, of Pittsfield, Mass., and a graduate of Groton School. The medal is of gold, valued at $25. It is offered every year by the Yale Literary Magazine to that member of the Academic or Scientific department who shall compose the best essay.

The medal was first awarded in 1850 and has been awarded every year since with six exceptions. It was awarded in '84 and not again until '88, and not since then until this week. This tends to show that the medal is a difficult prize to capture and is therefore considered a great honor. The subject of Boltwood's essay was "Robert Herrick."