The following is a statement of various prizes which have been offered by outside institutions for the academic year 1907-08, and which are open to students in different departments of the University.

For Essays on Economic Studies.

The University of Chicago has been enabled, through the generosity of Messrs. Hart, Schaffner and Marx, of Chicago, to offer again in 1908, as in the past three years, four prizes for the best essay on any one of the following subjects:

1. An examination into the economic causes of large fortunes in this country.

2. The history of one selected railway system in the United States.

3. The untouched agricultural resources of North America.

4. Resumption of specie payments in 1789.

5. Industrial combinations and the financial collapse of 1903.

6. The case against socialism.

7. Causes of the rise of prices since 1898.

8. Should inequalities of wealth be regulated by a progressive income tax?

9. The effect of the industrial awakening of Asia upon the economic development of the West.

10. The causes of recent rise in the price of silver.

11. The relation of an elastic bank currency to bank credits in an emergency.

12. A just and practical method of sixing railway property.