Eugene Victor Rostow of New Haven, Yale sophomore and winner of the highest freshman award last year in addition to many other scholastic honors, has been awarded the prize offered by the Harkness Hoot, Yale’s newest and most sensational magazine, for the best essay on Sinclair Lewis, Yale graduate and recent winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. In an announcement in the News this morning, it was stated that Rostow’s paper considerably outranked the others submitted in the contest, and that the essay will be printed in the next issue, to appear in January.
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