McDUFFEE '21 WINS HIGHEST POETRY HONORS AT OXFORD

Franklin McDuffee '21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis McDuffee of Rochester, N. H., now a student at Oxford University, England, has been awarded the Newdigate Poetry Prize at Oxford, according to an announcement recently received here. The Newdigate prize is considered one of the highest collegiate literary honors and McDuffee is the first American ever to have won it. This prize is the highest honor that has yet been won by a Dartmouth graduate for work in English poetry.

The Newdigate Prize was established in 1806 and though offered annually for the best poem written on an assigned subject is never awarded except for poems of extraordinary merit, a number of years often elapsing without an award being made. Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde are outstanding among the English writers who have received the award in addition to many other names famous in English literature. Ruskin competed for the prize, winning it once, but was twice unsuccessful".

The subject assigned to all competitors this year was Michael Angelo, a subject closely connected with Mr. McDuffee's study of the Renaissance period during the three years of his course in Balliol College. On his return to America in September Mr. McDuffee will become a member of the department of English at Dartmouth. A review of the poem .appears in this issue of the MAGAZINE.