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Four honor theses by Harvard undergraduates will soon be published by the Harvard University Press with the money which was donated for that purpose last year by Herbert Nathan Straus '03. The theses were chosen from the best essays submitted in the Bowdoin Prize competition, and from the best theses written by candidates for honors that were recommended by the various University departments...
...four essays selected out of the twenty that were considered are: "William Chilling worth, and the Theory of Toleration," by J. D. Hyman '31, recommened by the department of History and Literature; "The Broken Column," by H. T. Levin '33, who was awarded the first Bowdoin Prize; "The New England Fur Trade," by F. X. Moloney '31, submitted by the Department of History, and "The Problem of Pricing in a Socialistic State," by W. C. Roper Jr. '31, who concentrated in Economics...
Referee--W. R. Higgins, Holy Cross, Umpire--E. L. Scoles, Bowdoin. Linesman--James Liston, Boston College. Field judge--Joseph Pendieton, Bowdoin. Time--11-minute periods...
...hold that Harvard's education of criticism and classicism will quell the romantic ability of even an undergraduate. Of the four poems, Ex Libris shows, perhaps, the best technique, the nicest imagery, but discrimination is difficult. It is to be hoped that the Advocate will later run the Bowdoin Prize Essays if they approach the excellence of Mr. Conrad's work...
Grouse too are scarce. Chief grouse student at the conference was Professor Alfred Otto Gross, Bowdoin biologist. Some 30 insects infest grouse; study of the conditions which favor these parasites may reveal a cycle upon which to base conservation laws. Cornell University has done much good grouse study...