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lent in money if the winner prefer, awarded annually for the best essay on a sub
ject in either French philology or French literature. Awarded to Helen Martha
Peavy.
The Guilford Essay Prize, founded by James B. Guilford in 1902 to promote
composition,"
"a high standard of excellence in English prose
consists of about
$150, the annual income from his bequest of $3,000. Awarded to James Hutton.
The Luana L. Messenger Memorial Prize of $250, the annual income of a fund
of $5,000 established in 1902 by Hiram J. Messenger, is awarded to that student
who submits the essay "giving evidence of the best research and most fruitful
thought in the field of human progress or the evolution of civilization during some
period in human history or during human whole."
history as a Awarded to
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck.
The John Metcalfe Polk Prizes. In memory of J. M. Polk, an instructor in the
Medical College, who was graduated from the Medical Department of Cornell
University on June 7, 1899, and died on March 29, 1904, three prizes aggregating
$500 are presented at each Commencement to members of the graduating class
who have completed the full course of study in the Cornell University Medical
College and have attained the highest standing in the class. The prizes are re
spectively $300, $125, and $75. Awarded to Theodore Dunham, jr., Virginia
Macqueen Travell, and Raymond Owen Hitchcock.
The Sherman-Bennett Prize was founded in 1905 by Philo Sherman-Bennett
of New Haven, Connecticut, who bequeathed to William J. Bryan of Lincoln,
Nebraska,
a fund to found prizes in twenty-five colleges or universities to be
selected by Mr. Bryan. The prize consists of $20, the income of $400, and is
government."
awarded "for the best essay discussing the principles of free
awarded in 1924-25.
The Whiting Prizes, the first being $50 and the second $25, have been offered
since 1908 by Professor Frederick Whiting to the two students in the graduating
class of the Medical College, to be designated by him, who make the best records
in the practical and theoretical work in otology. Awarded to Theodore Dun
ham, jr., and Rebecca Burr Carter.
The James T. Morrison Prize, founded in 1909 by James T. Morrison of Ithaca,
is a gold medal or, if the winner choose, $100 in money, awarded annually for the
best original poem or poems. Divided into equal parts in 1924-25 and awarded
to Edith Horton and Elizabeth Raushenbush; honorable mention of Paschal
Neilson Strong, jr.
The Eastman Prizes for Public Speaking were founded by A. R. Eastman of
Waterville, New York, in 1909, and endowed in 1917, when he gave the University
$3,000 to maintain a first prize of $100 and a second prize of $20, for public
speaking on topics of country life. The annual competition is open only to regular
or special students of the College of Agriculture. Awarded to Cuyler Emory
Paine and Harold Ives Frederick.
The Sampson Fine Arts Prize, founded by Professor Martin Wright Sampson
in 1909, is awarded annually "to that student in the University who shows the
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most intelligent appreciation of the graphic and plastic arts and of
The prize is given, not for practical proficiency in painting, drawing, or designing,
but for natural or acquired ability to appreciate artistic beauty. It is the income
of a fund of $1,000 and is awarded, under regulations administered by the Pro
fessor of Aesthetics, to be expended in books or reproductions. Awarded to
Edgar Fred Bissantz.
The Fraser Senior Prize Scholarships, of $100 and $50 respectively, founded in
191 1 by an alumnus of the College of Law in memory of Alexander Hugh Ross
Fraser, late librarian of that college, are awarded annually about the beginning of
the academic year to seniors whose law course has been taken entirely in Cornell
University and who have most fully shown evidence of high qualities of mind and
character by superior achievement in scholarship and by those attributes of manli
ness which earn the commendation of teachers and fellow students. The award
is made upon the recommendation of the senior class by vote from a list of mem
bers submitted by the Faculty as eligible by reason of superior scholarship. The
holder of the Boardman Scholarship is not eligible. Awarded to Albert John
Monahan and Franklin Secor Wood.
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