Bowdoin Prizes Awarded to Six Writers of Essays

Eight students in the University have received awards for outstanding essays, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced this week.

Bowdoin Prizes for English dissertations by undergraduates for 1957-58 went to James A. Matisoff '58, first prize of $575 for "La Comedie Animale: La Fontaine as Egoist;" Walter E. Arnold Jr. '58, second prize of $375 for "The Future of the Classical Tradition in Philosophy; Jared M. Diamond '58, third prize of $100 for "Atomic Sieves and Giant Algae;" and Charles A. Shively '59, honorable mention for "The Pequot War."

Graduate Prizes

Graduate students who received Bowdoin Prizes ($600) were Richard M. Ohmann 6G, in the Humanities, for "Prose Style: The Theoretical Background;" Paul Seaver 3G, in Social Studies, for "James Anthony Froude: An Excursion into Nineteenth Century Historiographical Controversy;" and Allen G. Debus 2G, Natural Sciences, for "The Introduction of the 'New Phisicke' in Elizabethan England."

The George B. Sohier Prize for 1957-58 has been awaded to Jonathan Kozol '58 for his thesis, "The Metaphysical Bravado of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.'"

The Faculty announced that the stipend of the Undergraduate Bowdoin Prize in the Classics for a translation into Latin has been raised from $100 to $200. Noel G. G. Davis '60, recipient of that prize, has received notification that he will receive an additional check for $100.