the recipient and the respect of his fellows. One admirable gain has been the creation of the John Harvard and Harvard College scholarships, which carry no stipend, but mark the holder as a distinguished scholar. In the list of the 42 highest college students for the year 1897-98, 20 were John Harvard scholars. In addition to the old rank-list which students seem to value and to consult, the Faculty has provided for an annual public meeting at which deturs shall be distributed, prizes shall be announced, and lists of scholarship winners and Bowdoin prizes shall be distributed; and in the Commencement programme students will be arranged in four groups according to the dignity of their A. B., without the puzzling "orations," "dissertations" and "disquisitions." The whole subject of the prizes has undergone a revision, with a view to reducing their number and increasing their importance. By the gift of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Esq., two prizes of $200 each have been created for the two most successful debaters of the year, and the old-fashioned Bowdoin prizes which for many years have been doled out in small grants for a variety of subjects have now been concentrated. In the last academic year nine Bowdoin prizes were offered, of which four were taken; under the new system there will be but two undergraduate prizes offered, the first of $250, the second of $200, and also a graduate prize of $300; but instead of drawing up a list of topics, any subject will be allowed which has been approved by the judgment of the special committee. This system has for some years been followed with favorable results in the administration of the Toppan and other prizes in Political Science. Henceforward there will be open to competition, besides some smaller prizes, the three Bowdoin prizes, averaging $250; the Dante prize, for essays on the life and works of Dante, of $100; the Sargent prize, for metrical translations of Horace, of $100; the Sohier prize of $250, in English or modern literature; the Toppan prize of $150, in political science; and the Sumner prize, on Peace, of $150. It is hoped that the taking of such a prize will be considered a distinguished honor by the students as well as by the Faculty, and that it may have upon the future career of the recipient some such influence as similar prizes at the English universities.

Albert Bushnell Hart, '80.

STUDENT LIFE.

As the warmer weather comes and spring grows green and ripens into summer, the College turns to out-door amusements like one man. Any one who tries to chronicle the students' doings from early February into May will find himself writing almost entirely of the athletic fields and

the river. Players and spectators spend their afternoons at baseball on Soldier's Field. The tennis courts are always full. There is never a time when boats are not to be seen on the river. And the only two things which are distinct from the general out-door exuberance of the season, and which have any importance of their own, are the debates and the theatricals.

During the second half-year the activity and interest in debating has centred mainly round the two intercollegiate debates and the trials for picking the teams. The succession of these, which culminated in a set debate between the six best men from whom the team of four could be chosen, resulted extremely well. The new plan of retaining the remaining two, and forming them, with the alternate, into a second team for giving the regular men practice, also did much good. To estimate the effect of the Coolidge prize, awarded to the candidate who most distinguishes himself in the trials, is more difficult. But it was doubtless considerable. Its influence on the last trial, in which each speaker had one chance out of six of getting it, was noticeably stimulating. In short, one can say of the present system of choosing the intercollegiate debating teams that it brings out all the material worth considering, that it fills the candidates with eagerness and a spirit of rivalry, and that it tests them thoroughly.

The fifth annual debate between Harvard and Princeton was held on April 5 at Princeton. For the fifth time the decision was given in favor of Harvard. The question was: "Resolved, That a formal alliance between the United States and Great Britain, for the protection and advancement of their common interests, is advisable." S. B. Rosenthal, 1 L., H. F. Wolff, '99, and Wilbur Morse, '00, supported the negative for Harvard. President Patton presided, and Edward J. Phelps, ex-ambassador to England, J. B. Moore, Professor of Political Economy at Columbia, and J. W. Jenks, Professor of Political Economy at Cornell, acted as judges. At the banquet given the debaters at the Princeton Inn, when the debate was over, Prof. G. P. Baker responded to the "Harvard" toast.

won.

In the debate with Yale held in Cambridge May 12, Harvard also This victory was the first one since the year '94-95. The Harvard speakers, J. A. H. Keith, '99, R. T. Parke, 1 L., R. C. Bolling, '00, supported the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved: That the present method of electing United States senators is preferable to a method of election by popular vote." Colonel T. W. Higginson, '41, presided, and the judges were Prof. H. B. Gardiner, of Brown, Prof. Bliss Perry, of Princeton, and Judge Wm. Rumsey, of New York. A. L. Lowell, '77, coached the team for the Princeton Debate, and A. P. Stone, '93, the team for that with Yale.

The Coolidge prizes were awarded to Morse and Parke.

Since the Cercle play, mentioned in the last number of the Magazine, four of the College clubs have given theatrical preformances. The Deutscher Verein came first with a comedy, which took very well, considering the comparatively small number of people whom it could count on attracting. The Delta Upsilon followed with a production of another Elizabethan play, Fortune by Land and Sea, by Heywood and Rowley. The production showed careful and intelligent preparation, even to the smallest parts. The complicated plot, in which "love, jealousy, revenge, murder, bravery, and devotion" followed each other in quick profusion, was a most difficult thing to hold the interest of an audience with. the D. U. succeeded admirably.

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The annual Pi Eta Show, The Belles of Bellesley, which came next, was unusually good. The plot was full of amusing situations, and gave good opportunities for acting. The music was catchy, the songs clever, and the performance as a whole full of life and action. The cast was as follows:

Herr Professor Fritz von Stöphel weissererülenspiegel, newly elected President of Bellesley College, a Dutch

Fräulein Katrina von Ditto, his schwester, a Dutchess T. L. Holmes, '99.

Freddie Seltzer, an effervescent youth
Pat Hand, a Frenchman from Kilkenny

Tommy Tuffer, a messenger boy

T. Stensland, 1 L.

B. Taylor, '01.

W. S. Parker, '99.

C. E. Baldwin, '99.

I. Sawyer Dewitt, a sly sleuth in the Cigrette Servisse J. McC. Ross, '01.

Mrs. Deucid Koy, Dean of Bellesley and acting president

F. K. Dyar, 1 L.
H. N. Stearns, 1 L.
J. F. Bacon, '99.

C. S. Oakman, '00.

H. F. Hurlburt, '01.

C. M. Bard, '01.

C. C. Brayton, '01.

F. Prescott, '01.

P. L. Fish, '01.

W. H. Taylor, '01.
A. W. Hollis, '00.

The Hasty Pudding Club Show, Proteus, or the Lightning Change Artist, appeared during the first week in May. It was up to the average of Pudding Plays, though nothing extraordinary. The music, the dancing, and the specialties were its strong points. The cast follows: