The MAHLON LONG SCHOLARSHIP, founded by Rev. George Wells Ely, of Columbia, Pa., yields four hundred dollars a year. This scholarship is open to undergraduate members either of the Academical or Scientific Departments, and is intended to be given yearly during the entire course to the same student, though appointments or reappointments will be made each year.

The JOHN ADDISON PORTER MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP Was established in 1901 by Mrs. Josephine S. Porter, in memory of her husband, Professor John Addison Porter, of the class of 1842, and of her son, John Addison Porter, of the class of 1878, by the gift of ten thousand dollars. The income is awarded annually to a graduate of the Academical Department or of the Sheffield Scientific School, selected for distinguished excellence and promise in the Department of English.

The LOOMIS FELLOWSHIP IN PHYSICS, founded in 1902, by Professor Francis E. Loomis, of the class of 1864, Yale College, yields an annual income of four hundred dollars. This fellowship is open to all recent graduates in the Scientific and Academical Departments of Yale University, and also to graduate students from other institutions who have studied at least one year in Physics in the Graduate School of Yale University. It will be granted to the candidate who passes the best competitive examination in Physics (descriptive, mathematical and laboratory practice). The holder of this fellowship must be a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and must make Physics his chief study.

The LOOMIS FELLOWSHIP IN CHEMISTRY was established in 1905, by Mr. Henry B. Loomis. class of 1875, Yale College, by the gift of ten thousand dollars. This Fellowship is open to the graduates of the Scientific and Academical Departments of Yale University and to graduates of other Universities who have spent at least one year in

the study of Chemistry in the Graduate School of Yale University. It will be granted to the candidate who passes the best competitive examination in Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Analysis, Organic Chemistry, and laboratory practice). The holder of this Fellowship must be a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and must make Chemistry his chief study.

The DEFOREST SCHOLARSHIP FUND, amounting to twentyfive thousand dollars, designed for the education and support at Yale College, or the University which may grow out of it, of the male descendants of Mehitable Lockwood, the mother of David C. DeForest, of New Haven, by whose gift in 1823 these scholarships were established, is available for the aid of students in the Sheffield Scientific School, descendants of the above, or descendants of others of the family of DeForest, who are near of kin to the donor, David C. DeForest. In default of a sufficient number of descendants of the DeForest family applying for the benefit of the fund, the unemployed surplus of this fund may be utilized for aiding a limited number of young men in indigent circumstances and of good talents, to be designated DeForest Scholars.

Applications for aid from this fund may be made before the first of June to the Director of the Sheffield Scientific School.

The LEAVENWORTH SCHOLARSHIP FUND, now amounting to over nineteen thousand dollars, was established in 1882 by the Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth (Yale College 1824), of Syracuse, N. Y., with the primary object of defraying in part the expenses of the education of students of good character and promise, bearing the surname of Leavenworth. While this scholarship was designed primarily for students in the Academical Department, according to the terms of gift, if there should be a vacancy for a year or more, the same payments, namely, three

hundred dollars each year, may be made, while the vacancy continues, to any student by the name of Leavenworth, in any Department of the University.

PRIZES are also offered annually, to members of the Senior class, for excellence in Civil Engineering, in Mechanical Engineering, in Mining Engineering, in Sanitary Engineering, and in Electrical Engineering; to members of the Junior and Senior classes in the Select Course, for excellence in History, as determined by special examination on assigned topics; to members of the Freshman class for excellence in all the studies of the year, in Physics, in German, in French, in English, in Chemistry, in Mathematics, and in Drawing.

The WILLIAM R. BELKNAP PRIZES, founded by Mr. William R. Belknap, of the class of 1869, are awarded for excellence in the Natural History studies of Senior year. There are two prizes, one for excellence in Geological studies, and one for excellence in Biological studies.

The BLAKE STONE BREAKER PRIZE, founded in 1902 by Mr. Henry T. Blake, representing the heirs of Eli W. Blake, of New Haven, as a memorial to Eli Whitney Blake, the inventor of the Blake Stone Breaker. This prize, consisting of not less than fifty dollars, is awarded to the author of any treatise deemed worthy of such award on some subject connected with Mining or Civil Engineering, and preferably with some branch of those pursuits in which the use of broken stone or ores is an important feature. In the award of said prize, preference shall be given to the work of students, graduate or undergraduate, in the Sheffield Scientific School.

The WILLIAM C. TUCKER PRIZE IN SANITARY ENGINEERING, consisting of fifty dollars, is awarded at the end of Senior year to a student in the Sanitary Engineering course who has attained General Honors in said course, and who presents the best thesis on some original work relating to Sanitary Engineering.

The BENNETT PRIZE, being the income of a fund of one thousand dollars, given in 1893 by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of New York City, is awarded annually, on Commencement Day, to that undergraduate member of the Senior class, in either the Academical Department or the Sheffield Scientific School, who shall have pursued courses in Political Science and English Literature, and shall have prepared the best essay, in English prose, upon some subject of contemporaneous interest in the domestic or foreign policy of the United States government, selected by the Faculty.

The COBDEN CLUB SILVER MEDAL is awarded annually to that undergraduate of either the Academical Department or the Sheffield Scientific School who shows the greatest proficiency in the elements of Political Economy.

The GEORGE WASHINGTON EGLESTON HISTORICAL PRize of the income of six hundred dollars, founded by Mr. George Washington Egleston, of Eardisley, Herefordshire, England, will be awarded to any student of the University who shall during the ensuing year, by research, discover any new facts relating to American History; or shall from existing data bring to bear any information, or criticism, sufficiently notable to be useful from a literary point of view.

The JOHN A. PORTER PRIZE, being the income of five thousand dollars, established by the Kingsley Trust Association in 1872, is offered for the best English Essay on a prescribed subject. Competing essays must be handed in after the close of the Spring Recess, and the award will be announced on Commencement Day. Any person who has been pursuing a regular course for a degree in any Department of the University during the whole of the current College year, may compete for this prize. If none of the competing essays is of sufficient merit, the prize will not be awarded.

The subjects for essays in 1906 are as follows:

i. Church Attendance,―a Study of present Religious Conditions, particularly in the United States.

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The American College as a Moral Force in the Nation.

Christianity in the Far East.

Plutocracy.

The Influence of Machinery upon the Moral Character of
Working-men.

A New England Country Town.

American College Athletics.

8. The Citizen and the Political Machine.

Essays for the John A. Porter Prize should be plainly marked on the outside, "John A. Porter Prize University Essay for 1906," and should be mailed addressed to the John A. Porter Prize Essay Committee, Drawer 175, New Haven, or left at the office of the Yale Alumni Weekly. Each essay must be typewritten and must be signed by an assumed name and accompanied by the author's real name in a sealed envelope. This envelope must also contain an assignment of copyright, forms for which can be secured at the office of the Yale Alumni Weekly. The essays are due on or before April 30, 1906.