Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...George Bennett Wilson, Medfield...
...James Gordon Bennett has given Princeton a permanent prize for the best essay on American Politics...
...gift of Mr. James Gordon Bennett to the college of $1000 has already been mentioned...
...Bennett has offered similar prizes to other colleges as well, including Yale and Princeton, and the less important conditions as to the choice of a subject, the rules of composition, etc., he has left for the Faculty of each college to arrange as shall best suit each case. His idea is that the prize be adapted locally to each college in which it is established while maintaining the same general plan...
...prize has been added to the list of those already offered by the University which is intended to encourage men to prepare themselves for journalism. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald offered the University the sum of $1000 to establish a prize for "the best essay in English prose upon some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest." The gift was gratefully accepted on the terms named in Mr. Bennett's letter which were briefly these: That the sum be kept invested and the interest there of be given annually...