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French Essay Prize
Offers Visit Abroad

One of the "richest prizes"
available to undergraduates at
the University, a summer in
France, is being offered by the
Maas Prize Committee for the
best 5,000 word essay in French
on some aspect of Franco-American
relations. The second place
essayist will receive $200.

Eleven weeks in France with
a college-age, coed group of
twelve students called the "Experiment
in International Living"
will make up the summer prize.
Each student will be housed with
a French family in a town outside
of Paris.

For the first five weeks the
American student lives as a member
of the French family, then,
for the following three weeks, invites
the French "brother" or
"sister" on a tour of some other
part of France. A final week is
reserved for "free-lancing" in
Paris.

Anyone interested in the contest
should contact Joseph Carriere,
chairman of the committee,
or his committee members,
Lucius Moffatt and Alfred
Proulx. Essays will be accepted
until the closing date, April 1,
1968.