TERMS OF FOUNDATION

OF THE

JOHN A. PORTER UNIVERSITY PRIZE.

AT a meeting of the President and Fellows of Yale College, held in New Haven, March 13th, 1872, an offer was received from the Kingsley Trust Association, dated at New Haven, December 15th, 1871, placing at the disposal of the Corporation of Yale College, annually, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to constitute a prize to be called the John A. Porter Prize, and to be awarded for an English Essay, upon the following conditions,

viz. :

“1. The Prize may be competed for by any member of any department of the College, pursuing a regular course for a degree, who shall have been a member for at least one Academic year prior to the time when the Prize shall be awarded.

"2. The Prize shall be awarded by three Judges, two to be appointed by the President of the College, and one by the Trustees of the Kingsley Trust Association ; such Judges to be chosen or appointed on or before the first day of the second Academic term. The award of the Prize shall be announced on Commencement Day.

"3. Subjects shall be chosen, and the length and character of the Essays may be specified by the Trustees

of the Kingsley Trust Association. The subject shall be publicly announced on or before the first day of the second Academic term of the present collegiate year, and hereafter within the first two weeks of the first Academic term.

“4. If in any year, in the opinion of the Judges, none of the competing essays be of sufficient excellence, the Prize shall not be awarded.

"5. Competing essays shall be transmitted to the Judges within one week after the opening of the third Academic term, under cover, signed by a fictitious name, and accompanied by the real name of the writer in a sealed enclosure.

"6. The Trustees reserve the right to retain all competing manuscripts, and the right of publication of the same; each essay must therefore be accompanied by an assignment of the right of copyright.

“7. These terms and conditions may at any time be altered by the Trustees of the Kingsley Trust Association, with the consent of the President and Fellows of the College."

Resolved, That the foregoing offer be accepted upon the above-named conditions.

Attest,

FRANKLIN B. DEXTER, Secretary.

PURSUANT to the terms of the foregoing Foundation, the following Judges were nominated and appointed :

THE REV. WILLIAM M. BARBOUR, D.D.,

Professor in Yale College;

THE REV. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor in Yale College;

HENRY B. HARRISON, Esq., M.A.

The Judges awarded the prize to the essayist whose paper bore the signature of "Nabilac.”