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In response to our offer of a prize of ten dollars made in our January number of this year for the best article on Major General Israel Putnam by any pupil of a high or college-preparatory school in Connecticut, we have received a large number of articles by pupils in those schools in We are different sections of the state. gratified to note the uniformly standard of excellence of several of them which speaks well for the teaching in our schools. Although on account of this excellence it was difficult for the judges to choose the best, yet we are pleased to state that after careful readings the same decision was reached by each judge inWe therefore dependently of the others. feel that the decision is as fair and equitable as we could hope to reach, in awarding the prize to the article signed "Rose Standish."

Upon opening the sealed envelope we found "Rose Standish" to be Miss F. Greye Bragg of 117 Catherine Street, Bridgeport, Conn., who is a pupil in the Bridgeport High School, to which place the picture of General Putnam offered in connection with the prize will be sent. Miss Bragg's article will be published in an early number of this magazine.

The articles submitted in response to our second prize offer were few in number and we regret to say not such as to justify an award. Therefore in accordance with our statements in connection with the offer we cannot publish any of them.

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