JUSTIN H. SMITH '77 AWARDED LOUBAT PRIZE

Justin H. Smith '77, eminent student and writer of history was awarded last May by a committee of judges the first Loubat Prize of $1000 given for "the best book in the English language, published during a five-year period, on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology or numismatics of North America." The book on which the award was made is Mr. Smith's "History of the War with Mexico." Mr. Smith will be remembered by alumni as the donor to the College of the Webster desk at which the famous "reply to Haine" was written, and at which President Hopkins sits frequently now in his small private office in the Administration Building.