Word: essay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps I do him an injustice. It is certain that on the subject of colleges he feels deeply and speaks strongly. Let the reader judge for himself of the strength and sting of this paragraph from his essay on "Emerson's Most Famous Speech"--and let him ponder it as well; for herein lies the key to the whole volume: "If he (Emerson) were of our generation . . . would he not say: 'O you who are cramped in costly buildings, clogged with routine, preoccupied with, administrative machinery, how can you see the sun whether it be shining? Where is your free...
...first of the newly instituted lectures for English A at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. The subject upon which he will speak is "Education and Harvard College". In connection with this lecture the members of the course will be required to read Emerson's essay on the American scholar and finally to write a theme dealing with the subject treated in both the lecture and the reading...
...three subjects which have been chosen for essays in the $1050 Babson Prize Essay Competition, have recently been announced as "The Forecasting of the Price of Wheat"' of "Cotton", or of "Lumber". Mr. R. W. Babson, founder and president of the Babson Statistical Organization, has given this money for the purpose of stimulating the interest of university students in statistical economics, business forecasting, and the stabilization of our economic life...
...prize money will be divided as follows: (1) A prize of $650 for the best essay submitted by either an undergraduate or a graduate student at any American university. (2) A prize of $400 for the best essay by an undergraduate student at any American University...
Details of the Union Prize Essay Award have not been announced this year, but the Library Committee again will offer $100 for the winning essay...