Word: essay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aroused by an article which has been going the rounds and which was full of misrepresentations. The facts in the case are clearly stated in a letter from Professor H. W. Torrey, one of the judges, to the Boston Post. Of the three judges appointed to examine the essays, Professor Torrey alone had read the Aunex essay, when it was recalled by the dean as ineligible for the prize, because of the conditions of candidature, limiting the competition to members of the university. He returned the essay to the dean, remarking at the time that he thought it the best...
...Essay: "Faith and Conduct." Nichol: "Tables of European History...
...withhold the first prize of one hundred dollars, in compliance with the rule that the prize could not be awarded to any one outside of Harvard University. The young lady was, however, awarded the maximum prize of the Annex-thirty dollars-in consideration of the excellence of her essay. For the daily press to set up a how at this, and declare that the young lady paid seventy dollars for the privilege of being a woman, is distinctly wrong, and an injustice to the University and to Prof. Torrey, which we cannot allow to pass unnoticed...
Those members of English A will be relieved of one-third of the work at the final examinations who write a criticism of at least five pages on the style of some particular author, the essay to be finished on or before the fifteenth...
Prof. Hill has decided to allow the substitution of a thesis upon one of the authors prescribed for English A, instead of the essay in the final examination. The thesis must be from five to ten pages in length and must be handed in on or before...