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Sir William Browne's Medals are offered for competition as follows:
One for a GREEK ODE, not exceeding fifty lines in length, or GREEK ELEGY, not exceeding one hundred and fifty lines in length, on Atlanta.
One for a LATIN ODE, not exceeding fifty lines in length, or LATIN ELEGY, not exceeding one hundred and fifty lines in length, on Epicedion in Dianam.
One for a GREEK EPIGRAM on Girl Power.
One for a LATIN EPIGRAM on The Millenium Dome.
Resident undergraduates may be candidates for any of Sir William Browne's Medals if on 1 February 1999 not more than seven complete terms have passed after their first term of residence.
Candidates must send three copies of their exercise to the Registrary so as to reach him not later than 1 February 1999. The exercise must be in a printed or typewritten form; it must bear a motto (a short phrase, in English or Latin script), but not the candidate's name, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto outside and containing the candidate's name and College.
The Montagu Butler Prize, 1999, for Latin Hexameter Verse, will be given for the best original exercise, not exceeding one hundred and fifty lines in length, on the subject of Prometheus Bound.
Resident undergraduates may be candidates if on 1 February 1999 they have kept one term and not more than seven complete terms have passed after their first term of residence. Candidates must send three copies of their exercise to the Registrary so as to reach him not later than 1 February 1999. Such copies are not to be in the handwriting of the candidate. They must bear a motto (a short phrase, in English or Latin script), but not the candidate's name, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto outside and containing the candidate's name and College.
Copies of successful exercises shall be sent to the Master of Trinity, the University Library, the Library of Trinity College, and to each of the Examiners.
The value of the Prize for 1999 will be approximately £345; the prize is in books.
The Hare Prize is offered annually for a dissertation on a subject proposed by the candidate and approved by the Faculty Board of Classics, which falls within the scope of the Faculty of Classics. The Prize is open to any member of the University who has been approved by the Board of Graduate Studies for the award of the Ph.D. Degree during the calendar year next preceding the year of the award.
The candidate shall notify the Registrary, The Registry, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, not later than the fifth day of Full Lent Term, i.e. 17 January 1999, of the title of the dissertation that he or she proposes to submit. The Registrary shall communicate proposed titles to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Classics and shall inform candidates of the approval or rejection of their titles. Candidates whose titles have been approved must send their dissertations to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Classics so as to arrive not later than the Division of the Lent Term, i.e. 13 February 1999. A dissertation shall not exceed 80,000 words in length. The Faculty Board of Classics shall select not more than six dissertations from among those submitted and shall refer them to the Adjudicators. The award shall be made not later than the Division of the ensuing Michaelmas Term.
The value of the Prize shall be about £1,610. The prize money shall not be paid until the successful candidate deposits a copy of his or her dissertation in the Library of the Faculty of Classics.
The Examiners give notice that two Members' Classical Translation Prizes and two Members' Classical Reading Prizes are open for competition in the academical year 1998-99 to all members of the University in statu pupillari, other than Graduate Students, who have kept not more than seven terms on the first day of the Michaelmas Term 1998.
Members' Classical Translation Prizes are offered for the translation into English verse in any style and form appropriate to the original of a passage or passages of Greek or Latin verse set by the Adjudicators. One Prize is offered for the translation of Greek verse and one for the translation of Latin verse. A copy of the translation shall be presented by each successful candidate to the Library of the Faculty of Classics. The passages of Greek and Latin verse set for translation in the present year are as follows:
Greek: Theocritus, 6.
Latin: Lucan I, 129-157.
Candidates may compete for Prizes in one or both languages but the winner of a Prize may not compete a second time in the same language. Candidates must send three copies of their translations to the Registrary so as to reach him not later than 11 January 1999.
The translations must be printed or typewritten; they must bear a single motto (i.e. a short sentence or phrase in English or Latin script, but not the candidate's name) and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing outside the same motto and the words 'Members' Classical Translation Prizes', and containing the candidate's full name and College.
Candidates who wish to offer themselves for the Members' Classical Reading Prizes must send their names to reach the Registrary not later than 11 January 1999. One Prize is offered for the reading of Greek, and the other for the reading of Latin. The winner of a Prize may not compete a second time in the same language. Candidates for the Prizes in the current academical year will be required to read aloud in their chosen language:
(a) a set piece of verse and a set piece of prose as follows:
(b) one unprepared piece of verse to be chosen by the Adjudicators;
(c) one piece of verse or prose chosen by the candidate; this piece should be comparable in length with the pieces given in (a) above.
The competition will be held in the Classics Faculty Building during the first half of the Lent Term. Candidates will be informed in due course of the time at which they should attend.
The present value of the Members' Classical Translation Prizes is £150 each and the value of the Reading Prizes is £100 each.
The Porson Prize for 1999 will be given for the best translation into Greek verse, in the tragic iambic metre and accentuated, of the following passage:
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii, Lines 1-32, 'Welcome, dear Rosencrantz . . . to be commanded.'
Resident undergraduates may be candidates for this Prize if on 1 February 1998 not more than seven complete terms will have passed after their first term of residence. Candidates must send three copies of their exercise to the Registrary, so as to reach him not later than 1 February 1999. The exercise must be printed or typewritten; it must bear a motto (a short phrase, in English or Latin script), but not the candidate's name, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto outside and containing the candidate's name and College.
The present value of the Prize is £60.
N.B.: Candidates' attention is drawn to the general regulations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 685), and in particular to Regulations 10 and 11.
The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that grants may be made from the F.S. Salisbury Fund to members of the University in statu pupillari engaged in excavations on Roman sites in Britain.
Any member of the University in statu pupillari is eligible for a grant. Applicants must state the name of the site on which they propose to work, the total expenses they expect to have to incur, and the total sum they hope to have available from other sources.
Applications must be sent to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, so as to reach him not later than 18 May 1999.
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Cambridge University Reporter Special 5, 2 November 1998
Copyright © 1998 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.