Awards, etc.

Harness Prize: Notice

See Special No. 6 of the Reporter, 2009–10, p. 26.

The subject for 2010 is ‘Shakespeare and Order’.

Winchester Reading Prize: Notice

See Special No. 6 of the Reporter, 2009–10, p. 12.

The Winchester Reading Prize examination will take place in the Senate-House at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 28 April 2010.

All the works and passages chosen for this year’s Winchester Reading Prize concern Old Age and Aging. They are:

Francis Bacon: essay 42, ‘Of Youth and Age’;

Charles Dickens: an extract from ‘Bleak House’, Chapter xxi, ‘The Smallweed Family’, from the beginning of the chapter to the end of the paragraph starting ‘One might infer from Judy’s appearance...’;

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: ‘Ulysses’;

Jenny Joseph: ‘Warning’;

U. A. Fanthorpe: ‘Ridge House (Old People’s Home)’;

Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Last Post’ (written at the request of the BBC to mark the death of Harry Patch, the last British soldier to survive the First World War).

The Bacon, Tennyson, and Dickens are all widely available, but copies of the poems by Joseph, Fanthorpe, and Duffy will be available from the Faculty Office.