authors, distributed by lot, and then translated into English and submitted to the Professor of Greek or Latin and the Professor of English, will be pronounced in public on the 19th of May, 1881, in the presence of a committee of award on the delivery. The merits of the version as a translation and as an English composition, together with the merits of the delivery as a declamation, will have equal weight in determining the award of the Prize. The Prize-man of the year, if he be still a member of the College, will consider, himself under obligation to pronounce an original version at the Prize Declamations of the following year, without being a candidate for the Prize. 1863. Joseph Field Ely. 1865. James Brainard Goodrich. 1866. Frank Louis Norton. 1867. Howard Cooke Vibbert. 1868. George Lewis Cooke, Jr. 1869. George William Douglas. 1870. Arthur Dyer. 1871. Paul Ziegler. 1872. Alexander Mackay-Smith. PRIZE-MEN. 1873. Oliver Henry Raftery. 1879. Alfred Harding. 1880. Harry Campbell Black. ENGLISH LITERATURE PRIZE. A PRIZE OF SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS is offered to the Senior Class for the best examination in English Literature from the earliest times to the present day, with special reference, for the Class of 1881, to The Prose of the Reign of Queen Anne. There must be at least five competitors. The examination, which will be held on the 19th and 20th of November, 1880, will be in writing, and the questions proposed will not be confined to any text-book. The Professor of English and Rhetoric, the Professor of Latin, and a third person, not a member of the Faculty, to be selected by them, will be a committee to hold the examination and award the prize. The special subjects of examination for the following classes will be: For the Class of 1882, For the Class of 1884, For the Class of 1885, The Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. The Theological Writings of the Seventeenth Century. The Historical and Philosophical Writings of the 1877. George Sumner Chipman. 1878. [Not awarded.] PRIZE MEN. 1879. William Logan Crosby. LATIN PRIZE. A PRIZE OF TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS will be awarded to that member of the Junior Class who shall sustain the best examination in Crutwell's History of Roman Literature. There must be three competitors. The examination will be held on the 3d of May, 1881. 1870. Henry Scudder Wood. 1873. James Davis Smyth. 1874. [Not awarded.] 1875. Henry Groves Cameron. PRIZE-MEN. 1876. Charles Carroll Edmunds, Jr. 1879. Bern Budd Gallaudet. PASCAL-FÉNELON PRIZE. THIS PRIZE, given since 1876 in memory of the late President Jackson, is of the value of twenty dollars, in books. It will be awarded to that member of the Sophomore Class who shall sustain the best examination in Fénelon's Traité de l Existence de Dieu. The examination will be held on the 10th of May, 1881. PRIZE-MEN. 1871. Charles Pomeroy Parker. 1874. Isaac Hiester. 1875. Sydney Douglass Hooker. 1877. Lorin Webster. 1878. Bern Budd Gallaudet. MATHEMATICAL PRIZES. A PRIZE OF TWENTY DOLLARS will be awarded to that member of the Freshman Class who shall sustain the best examination in the solution of Algebraic Problems. The examination will be held on the 4th of December, 1880. A PRIZE OF TWENTY DOLLARS will be awarded to that member of the same class who shall sustain the best examination in Chauvenet's Modern Geometry. The examination will be held on the 7th of May, 1881. THE STUDENTS, in continuation of prizes given by the Athenaeum and Parthenon Literary Societies, offer two Medals as prizes for excellence in writing and pronouncing English Orations. Two members of each of the three upper classes, selected after competition, will deliver their orations in public on the 22d of February, 1881, in the presence of a committee of award. A gold medal will be awarded as the first prize, and a silver medal as the second prize. Gold Medal. PRIZE-MEN. Silver Medal. 1869-70. Arthur Dyer. 1870-71. Chauncey Camp Williams. 1878-79. David Buchanan Willson. 1879-80. Thomas Morduit Nelson George. Paul Ziegler. Alexander Mackay-Smith. James Diggles Hurd. Joseph Buffington. James Dowdell Stanley. Edward Mansfield Scudder. Robert Lefavour Winkley. Harry Campbell Black. |