Word: essay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attended by about 150 members and guests of the association. At that meeting Charles C. Beaman, '65, of New York, a member of the association gave $500 to the association to enable it to offer during the next five years an annual prize of $100 for the best essay to be written by some member of the law school. The prize of $100 offered by the association in 1888 was awarded to Samuel Williston, LL. B., '88, of Cambridge, for an essay on "The History of the Law of Business Corporations Prior to the Year 1800." The gift...
...Hapgood discusses "Carlyle's Estimate of the Eighteenth Century." He does not agree with Carlyle that it was a "decrepit, death-sick era," when Addison, Defoe, Richardson founded the essay, the newspaper, the novel, when Burns, Goethe, Schiller were enriching poetry; when science was making enormous strides under the impulse of Franklin, Newton, Herschel. The writer concludes with a comparison of "Carlyle's harsh estimate" with "Mr. Lecky's admirable summary...
With the March number the Harvard Law Review completes the second year of its existence. It has been most successful and has filled a prominent place among the publications of the University. The leading article of this number is an essay on the "Comparative Merits of Written and Prescriptive Constitutions," by Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, one of the most eminent authorities on constitutional law. The article states clearly the relative advantages of the two systems, taking the constitutions of the United States and England as typical forms, and will be of value to every student of constitutional history...
Last night Mr. George James Peirce, of the Scientific School, delivered a Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. His essay was one which would prove especially interesting to students of Natural History, and although it contained many technical terms, it was clearly and concisely written...
...present in the rooms of the members. It is hoped, however, that permanent rooms may be secured before long. There will be a large number of scientific magazines and papers taken, and it is almost absolutely necessary that rooms should be obtained in which to keep them. An essay will probably be read at every meeting, and occasionally other entertainment will be provided...