1002nd Night

The Bok Peace Prize was awarded in Philadelphia before 3,500 citizens who assembled in the Academy of Music. John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain, made the presentation of the $50,000 check, with $50,000 more to follow if the referendum now being taken shows "sufficient popular support." Dr. Charles Herbert Levermore of Brooklyn, former President of Adelphi College, was the recipient.

Said Mr. Levermore: "It might be the tale of the 1002nd night in which Mr. Bok is playing two parts, that of observant caliph and that of benevolent magician."

Dr. Levermore, aged 68, has an A.B. from Yale, class of 1879, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, 1885. At the latter institution he attended cotemporaneously with Woodrow Wilson, whom he knew well. They were fellow members of the Glee Club. Later he became a Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Principal of Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, President of Adelphi College. Before we entered the War he was a pacifist, later an ardent supporter of President Wilson's program. He is Secretary of the World Court League, of the League of Nations Union, and the New York Peace Society, has held office in other similar organizations.

At the presentation meeting it was announced that Dr. Levermore's plan had thus far received 351,256 votes of 401,183 cast in the referendum; also that 15 of the losing plans will soon be published.