Conditions for Bowdoin Prizes

I. For Undergraduates.

The conditions of the competition for the Bowdoin Prizes for dissertations in English, Latin and Greek are as follows:

A First Prize of $250 and Two Second Prizes of $100 each for essays written by undergraduates of Harvard College in regular standing in 1909-10. Either or both of the two second prizes may be divided, at the discretion of the Committee, between two competitors. The first prize will not be divided.

Essays offered in competition for these prizes may be on any subject approved by the Chairman of the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes as a proper subject for treatment in literary form. Theses that form part of the regular work in an elective course may be offered in competition, with the consent of the instructor in the course, or, subject to such consent, may be rewritten for the prize competition.

II. For Graduates.

Three Prizes of $200 each are offered annually to Graduate Students, for essays of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning. Any holder of an academic degree in Arts, Literature, Philosophy, or Science, who has been in residence in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for one full year within a period beginning not more than two years before the time when the prize is to be awarded, may compete for these prizes.

For the year 1909-10 a prize will be offered in each one of the groups numbered IV, V, and VI. IV. Modern Languages and Literature. VI. History and Political Science. VI. Philosophy, Education, and the Fine Arts. Not more than one prize is offered for essays belonging to a single group.

Competitors are at liberty to select the subjects of their essays; but the subjects must be approved in advance by the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes.

FOR DISSERTATIONS IN GREEK AND LATIN.

I. For Undergraduates.

(a) A Prize of $50 for a translation into Attic Greek of the passage in G. Lowes Dickinson's Justice and Liberty, pp. 148-155, beginning with the words "How would you propose to organize industry" through the words "in communities not based on Collectivism."

(b) A Prize of $50 for a translation into Latin of the passage in James Russell Lowell's Democracy and Other Addresses, pp. 230-237, beginning with the words "During the first two centuries" through the words "in season and out of season."

II. For Graduates.

A Prize of $100 for an original essay in either Latin or Greek of not less than three thousand words on any subject chosen by the competitor, written by a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for one full year within the period 1908-10.

Attention is called to the following vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences:

That all committees on prizes shall report not only the essays for which prizes are awarded, but also those essays which seem to be worthy of distinction; and all essays reported shall be considered in the award of scholarships and the granting of degrees with distinction.

Essays and translations must be handed to the Secretary of the Faculty not later than April 1, 1910, and must conform to the requirements and general rules printed on pages 537-539, 547, and 591-592 of University Catalogue for 1908-09