Word: essay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...misses, perhaps, something in the nature of the essay. What has become of the periodical slam at the Classics--or the teachers of them, for the Classics themselves are impregnable--which we seem to remember in ante-bellum days? Yet the crisp editorials attest the power to produce the essay. A typical one, on the S. A. T. C., if rather one-sided and possibly even unfair, rigorously expresses what most of us think about the relation between College and the Government; and the reverent and discerning words of the editors on Theodore Roosevelt recall his connection, while in College...
...Ames Prize is awarded at intervals of four years. It consists of a bronze medal and a sum of not less than $400, and is awarded to the writer of the most meritorious law book or legal essay written in the English language and published not less than one nor more than five years before the award...
...best piece of work in the issue is "Cats" by I. J. Williams, Jr., '20. It is ingeniously put together with alternate bits of the naive and the blase, but it is real stuff. Mr. Williams is in service, and so this interesting essay whiffs of the trenches...
Clarence Crane Brinton '19, of Springfield, has been awarded a double first prize of $500 in the Bowdoin Prize Essay Competition for the present college year. This is the first time since the Bowdoin Prize was founded in the 18th century that such an award has been made. The extraordinary excellence of Brinton's essay on "Acton's Philosophy of History" led the committee of judges to grant him this honor...
Three other prizes were given to undergraduates in the competition as follows: one of $100 to Martin Luther Hope '19, of Eldorado, Mo., for an essay entitled "Thomas Hardy"; one of $50 to Carl Schmalz '19, of Huntly, Ill., whose subject was "The Fur Trade (1600-1700)"; and a third of $50 to Robert Pierce Casey '19, of Dorchester, who wrote on "The Fatherhood of God in the Teaching of Jesus...