HISTORICAL PRIZE SUBJECT

Announcement was made some time ago that in the name of the class of 1859 Charles W. Pickering of Greenland, N. H., had established an annual historical prize of twenty-five dollars, to be awarded to a member of the junior or senior class for the best thesis on a historical subject. The subjects for the present year, recently given out, are:

The Life and Public Services of General Sylvanus Thayer; Changes in the Law of Marriage and Divorce in France since 1789; The Idea of Secession in the United States up to 1830; Slavery Sen. timent in New Hampshire from 1850 to 1860.