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ANUARY, 1930 57

Butler University is proud of
the achievement of Miriam
Cosand (Beta Theta) who won
the annual Witter Bynner
award for the best undergradu-
ate poem submitted to the
Poetry Society of America.
The prize is given to encourage
young college poets

Witter Hynner toward (joes

to ^Alpha Omicron 'Pi

By BERTHA FURSTENBERG, Beta Theta

AGAIN another Alpha O has brought prominence to her school, soror-
ity and herself. Miriam Cosand (Beta Theta) has been awarded
the Witter Bynner undergraduate poetry prize for her poem en-
itled "A Lover Gone," an honor bestowed for the first time on a Butler
University student and also the first time to a student in an Indiana col-
ege.

Witter Bynner offers each year a prize of $150 for the best under-
raduate work submitted to the Poetry Society of America. His ob-
ect has always been to encourage young poets. The contest is con-
ucted under the auspices of Palms, one of the outstanding poetry publi-
ations in the United States. Many of those such as Countee Cullen,
Langston Hughes and Sterling North, who have won the prize in former
ears, have since won a distinct place in literature. Because of this and
ecause universities are now so eagerly turning to literary channels more
han ever before makes Miriam's achievement only more remarkable
nd crowning.

Miriam, who shares this honor with two other students of well known
«stitutions of this country because of the unusual quality of all of their
Work submitted, has had to exhibit unusual ability. The fact that her
work was judged and so worthily approved by so prominent judges as
Eunice Tietjans and Witter Bynner points to a brilliant and promising
uture.