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INTEESCHOLASTIC ORATORICAL CONTEST

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THE HENRY H. HARRIS PRIZE IN BANKING Henry H. Harris, Esq., of Champaign, offers a prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay on the History of State Banking in Illinois. Competition for this prize is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, of the University of Illinois. All essays entered -in competition are due and must be received by the Professor of Economics by noon of the first of May, 1896. The award will be made in accordance with conditions to be announced hereafter. The right of not awarding the prize is reserved, if no one of the essays handed in is deemed of sufficient merit. Should the prize not be awarded in 1896, it will remain open for another competition. IN ORATORY The Trustees of the University appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars for prizes in oratory and debate during the year. One half of the amount is awarded in two prizes, of thirty and twenty dollars, respectively, to the two students adjudged the best debaters in an inter-class debate. This debate was held for the first time at the University on February 24th last. The other half of the amount appropriated is awarded, also in two prizes of thirty and twenty dollars, respectively, for the two orations adjudged the best according to the following conditions: For the present the competition is open to members of the two upper classes. Competitors must deposit copies of their orations in -the office of the President of the University on or before the first Monday in May. The writers of the six best orations shall deliver them in public on Tuesday evening of Commencement Week, and the prizes shall then be awarded. INTERSCHOLASTIC ORATORICAL CONTEST. A medal of the value of twenty dollars is offered annually by the University to the high schools of the state for the best oration delivered in a competitive contest between their representatives. This contest takes place in the spring at the time of the interscholastic athletic meet.