Bowdoin Prizes.

The subjects for Bowdoin Prizes have been announced. There are in all nine prizes, founded by James Bowdoin, and offered by the faculty to students residents in the University. Two prizes of one hundred dollars each are offered for the best dissertations on any of the subjects given below, or the best translations of any of the passages also given below written by graduates of any college who are resident at the University, either as members of the Graduate School or of the senior class.

Seven prizes are offered to students of more than one year's standing in any department of the University who have never received an academic degree. The prizes are all not more than one hundred dollars or less than fifty. Three will be given for the best dissertations on any of the following subjects:-

1. A Critical Estimate of Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United States.

2. What steps should first be taken in the Reform of Municiple Government in the United States?

3. The expediency and practicability of further restrictions on Immigration into the United States?

4. The wisdom of Gladstone's policy of Home Rule for Ireland.

5. The conceptions of Spirit, Soul and Body in the History of Psychology.

6. The relations between Genius and Insanity in the light of Recent Discussion.

7. The Ethical and Social Doctrines of Tolstoi in their relations to contemporary social, literary and religious movements.

8. The place of Parkman in the Historical literature of the United States.

9. The place of James Russell Lowell in English Literature.

One prize is reserved for the best dissertation on any of the topics:-

1. Plautus and Terence as representing the Greek New Comedy.

2. The Roman dwelling as compared with modern habitations.

3. The attitude of the Roman government toward Christianity in the first Christian centuries.

4. The use of Torture in Attic Law.

5. The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan reaction of his time.

6. Longinus as a literary critic.

7. The life and political character of Theramenes.

One prize will be awarded for the best translation of either of the following passages:-

1. A translation into Greek from Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Chapter 1., beginning, "Of the Indian character much has been written foolishly," and ending, "his look of grim defiance."

2. A translation into Latin from John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University (Essay on Christianity and Letters), from "In the country which has been "through" the best guarantees for intellectual progress."

The remaining two will be given for the best dissertations on any of these subjects:-

1. Historical sketch of theories as to the nature of electricity, with especial attention to changes of theory within recent years.

2. The doctrine of the conservation of energy as applied to chemical phenomena.

3. The phenomena of nitrification.

4. The value of experimental work in animal morphology.

5. The geological history of soils.

6. Origin of igneous rocks.

Dissertations offered by Seniors of 1893-94 must be deposited with the Dean of Harvard College on or before Commencement, 1894. All other dissertations for these prizes must be deposited with the Dean of Harvard College on or before the first day of November, 1894. On the title-page must be written an assumed name and a statement of the writer's standing,- i. e., whether he is a graduate or an undergraduate; if an undergraduate, to what class he belongs and to what department of the University. Under cover with the dissertation must be sent a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with his assumed name.

The dissertations must be written upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that they may be bound up without injury to the writing. The sheets on which the dissertation is written must be securely stitched together. The dissertations must not contain more than 10,000 words.

The authors of successful dissertations are invited to read them in public at a place and a time to be designated by the Dean.