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SIX AWARDED BOWDOIN PRIZES

Wolf, Files and Levy First Among 67 Undergraduate Entrants.

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Six awards, three in the Graduate School and three in the College, have been made in the Bowdoin prize contest for dissertations in English, as follows: in graduate group 1, mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering, the prize of $200 was awarded to Gerald Louis Wendt 3G., of Boston, for an essay entitled "The Nature of the Atom"; in graduate group II, biology, geology, anthropology, and forestry, the prize of $200 was awarded to Guilford Bevil Reed 3G., of Berwick, N. S., for an essay entitled "Studies in Plant Diseases"; in graduate group III, foreign languages literatures, ancient and modern, the prize of $200 was awarded to William Odell Shepard 1G., of Los Angeles, Cal., for an essay entitled "The Cult of Solitude in French Romantic Literature."

Of the undergraduates, the first prize of $200, was awarded to Robert Leopold Wolf '15, of Cleveland, O., for an essay entitled "Some Aspects of the Theory of Value"; and two second prizes of $100 each to Harold Gershom Files '15, of Roxbury, for an essay entitled "The Pessimism of Thomas Hardy," and to Leonard Solon Levy '17, of Cleveland, O., for an essay entitled "The Modern Jewish National Movement."

Essays by the following 23 men also received honorable mention: R. W. Babcock '17, M. Cohen '15, H. Cohn '15, R. W. Chubb '15, H. Epstein '16, A. Fisher '15, H. Goldberger '16, H. Jackson, Jr., '15, R. F. Kelley '15, L. S. Levy '17, W. E. McCurdy '16, R. W. Nelson '16, H. A. Packard '15, H. W. Schlaffhorst '15, C. H. Smith '15, B. J. Snyder '17, B. Stolberg uC., P. M. Symonds '15, M. Taylor '16, F. W. Thompson '16. Eighty-four essays were handed in, of which 17 were by graduates and 67 by undergraduates.

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