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At the last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the Toppan Prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxon Toppan '58, of Cambridge, was awarded for 1915-1916 to Clarence Henry Haring '07, Ph. D. '16, for an essay entitled, "Trade and navigation Between Spain and the Indies Under the Hapsburgs." The judges were Professor Guy S. Ford of the University of Minnesota and Professor William MacDonald of Brown University.
The Bennett Prize of $76, from a fund established by James Gordon Bennett of New York, offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental policy, was awarded to Sydney Zanditon '17. The subject of his thesis was, "The Railway Wage Problem." The judges were Mr. Arthur D. Hill '94 of Boston president of Dartmouth College.
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