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For two years Harvard has been unable to find a contestant among the other colleges for an academic prize left by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Lowell, to the University. The awards of the competition are made up of the interest of a trust fund left by Mrs. Putnam.

Yale had a contest with Harvard in the spring of 1928 in the form of an English examinations, in which Harvard won with flying colors. Since that time Harvard has found no other college willing to compete, although last year they offered to engage Cambridge University, England, in a bout on Economics.

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