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Announcement has been made by the committee in charge that the competition for the Bowdoin Prizes for 1919-20 is now open to all resident students of the University. These prizes are of two groups, the first of which are awarded for dissertations in English, and the second for dissertations in Greek and Latin. Each of these classes are subdivided so that those who hold degrees will be judged and awarded prizes distinct from these which are given undergraduates. The competitions close on April 1, 1920, and on that date all essays and translations must have been handed...
...first prize of $250 and two second prizes of $100 each for dissertations in English are open to resident students who do not hold an academic degree or have not had an equivalent training, and also for other candidates for the degree of A. B. or S. B. in the University. Although the first prize can be awarded to but one man, either or both of the two second prizes may be divided between two competitors if the committee sees...
...life that matters--but the courage you bring into it," might we have been the text of St. John O. Ervine's great play, "John Ferguson, which began its first week in Boston a the Hollis Monday evening. It is a word of unusual power destined to live because it deals with emotions, instinct and characters which will exist as lone as life itself exists...
...Arthur Whiting and assisting artists will give the first concert of a series of Expositions of Chamber Music in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland street this evening at 8.15 o'clock. All officers and students of the University are invited to attend this concert, to which no admission fee is charged...
These expositions, which are given annually at Princeton and Yale, as well as Harvard, were first held in 1907. Their purpose is three-fold: to arouse and appeal to the artistic sense of American college men, to develop an appreciation of aesthetics, and to begin a layman's education in the art of music. Classical compositions form the main part of the concerts, but modern and experimental works are frequently presented...