PBK Society Grants Whitman $1000 Prize

The United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa last night awarded its 1958 Christian Gauss Prize to Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin.

Named after a former dean of Princeton University, the award consists of $1,000. Whtman received the prize for his book, Homer and the Homeric Tradition, published in June, 1958.

The prize is awarded annually for a work of "double-barreled scholarship," namely, literary criticism combined with historical and technical examination.