Word: essay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON prize essay contest will be decided today at a joint meeting of the Managing Editor and the Board of Judges. The winner will be awarded a scholarship of the value of $600 which will entitle him to travel on a United States Lines tour of Europe in a party conducted by the Students' Tours Association of Princeton...
While the winner of the prize essay contest will be decided today, at the same time the victor's name will be withheld until April 28, when the decision will be announced in the CRIMSON and the winning essay will be published...
...judges of the contest are Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Dean E. A. Whitney '17. The standards which they have set for the winning essay include keen recognition of some needed correction and soundness of constructive criticism, combined with literary excellence and taste in style...
These quotations are taken from the essay, printed herewith, submitted in the Crimson prize essay contest for the United States Lines Tour this summer. Other selected essays will be printed from time to time...
...Thomas Robert Malthus, would reply, amiably enough: "Pish-posh! Very pretty. But society will never be happy so long as it permits itself to multiply more rapidly than its means of sustinence." Impressed by his son's views, Malthus Sr. encouraged Malthus Jr. to pen An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society. Published, elaborated in revision, this essay became widely known as the Malthusian Doctrine of Population, sneered .by economists, shunned by purists through the prosperous and socially restful 19th Century...