PRIZE SPEAKING

The contests for the Rollins and Smith prizes were held March 23. The winners of the Rollins prizes, given by E.W. and F. W. Rollins of Boston,were: First prize of forty dollars, A. K. Lowell '12, of Reading, Mass., subject, "Napoleon the Little"; second prize of thirty-five dollars, C. C. Meleney, of Brooklyn, N.Y., subject,"Nomination Speech"; third prize of twenty-five dollars, H. E. Burtt '11, of Haverhill, Mass., subject, "Happiness and Liberty."

The Smith prizes of thirty and twenty dollars, awarded to Seniors for excellence in extemporaneous debate, were awarded to W. C. Shaw, of Lowell, Mass., first prize, and to J. R. Lowell, of Portland, Me., second prize. The subject for debate, given to the contestants twenty-four hours before the debate, was: "Resolved, that the honor system of conducting examinations should be adopted in Dartmouth College." The contestants were: Affirmative, W. E. Tucker and J. R. Lowell; negative, C. S. Lyon and W. C. Shaw.

The judges were: Rev. F. W. Lockwood, of Cambridge, Mass., F. R. Keith, Esq., of Boston, and H. H. Ham, Esq., '05, of Boston.

The contestants for the Rollins prizes and the subjects of their declamations were:

1. Napoleon the Little Hugo Arthur Kenney Lowell '12

2. A Nomination Speech Ingersoll Clarence Coit Meleney '13

3. A Plea for Cuba Thurston Joseph Stanley Gibson '13

4. Happiness and Liberty Ingersoll Harold Ernest Burtt '11

S. Our Philippine Policy Hoar Charles Frederick Shepard '1l2

6. Farewell Speech of Senator Gordon Austin Campbell Keough '11