PALFREY PRIZE AWARDED

James M. Tobin '38 of Champaign, Ill., has been awarded the Palfrey Exhibition prize of $200 given annually to "the most distinguished scholar in the senior class who is a recipient of a stipendiary scholarship."

Tobin, who graduated from University High School in Urbana, Ill. has held a Harvard National Scholarship throughout college, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, and is now first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa. His field of study is economics. He is on the Student Council, the Class Album Committee, the Guardian magazine editorial staff, and the Student Union, and has taken part in debating. He was winner of the Briggs Prize book, given annually to the freshman who writes the outstanding midyear examination essay in the European history survey course.