Six in College, GSAS Get Bowdoin Prizes for Outstanding Dissertations

Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 announced yesterday the award of six prizes pending final approval by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Bowdoin Prizes for Dissertations in English will go to two seniors, a junior, and three students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Geoffrey D. Bush '50 took the $500 first prize with a critical essay entitled "The Promised End: Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear."

Second prize of $300 went to James V. Grasse '50 for his analysis: "The Prospect of Peace: The Role of the Soviet Union." Richard R. Repass '51 took third prize of $100 for an essay treating "The Love Theme in the Works of Wagner."

"Twins" Take $300

In the graduate prize division, Slegle H. Finnegan's 2G won $300 for an essay on "Finnegan's Wake": "A Misgauge From the Twins." Sherman Paul 4G and Ernest H. Goldman 1G also were awarded $300 each.

Paul wrote on "Emerson's Literary Ethics: Self-Culture and Social Responsibility," while Goldman's essay death with "A Review of the Primary Particles of Physics as They Are Believed to Exist."

Three other Graduate School students won Honorable Mention. Jess B. Bessinger 4G for "Robin Hood in the Forest of Philology: The Ballads After Ritson"; Geoffrey B. Riddehough 1G for "Trogon Isolation in Greek Drama"; and Edward E. Hunt, Jr. 4G for "The Biological Study of Human Evolution."