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