Two Toppan Prizes Hereafter

The rules governing the award of the Toppan Prize have been changed so that now instead of an annual prize of $150 for the best essay on political science, an annual prize of $100 for the best doctoral thesis on political science and a prize of $200 to be given on alternate years for an essay on the same subject will be awarded.

This is the first year on which the prize for the essay will be given and hereafter it will be awarded every second year. In this way the Toppan Biennial Prize is offered on those years in which no Bowdoin Prize is available in the subjects which the Toppan Prize embraces.

The conditions for the Toppan Prize are identical with those for the Bowdoin Prize for graduates. Any holder of an academic degree in Arts, Literature, Phillosophy or Science who has been in residence since the beginning of the academic year in the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, Applied Sciences, and Business Administration, or who has completed a year of residence in these Schools within a period beginning not more than two years before Commencement Day of the year of the competition, may compete. No essay offered by a graduate may contain more than 15,000 words, and it must be finished by May 1.