Word: essay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passages the volume consists of pure description; chapters are interlarded which are almost unsurpassed as examples of the short story; now and again the writer indulges in the speculative essay; all so instinct with warmth and life and motion as to carry the reader quite out of himself...
...intending to compete for the Harvard Union Prize Essay are reminded that manuscripts are due in the Library of the Union before February 15. Prizes of $100 and $50 each are to be given by the Library Committee of the Union for the two essays which the judges consider best from a viewpoint of literary style. Essays should be of the type published in the Atlantic Monthly, but not intended primarily to show extensive research and therefore not to exceed $500 words in length. The judges will be announced as soon as appointed...
Manuscripts for the prize essay competition for a similar award must be submitted by March 2. They may be on any subject, but preferably on some undergraduate topic of current interest...
...other resident students, three $200 prizes are offered for essays of high literary merit belonging to one of the following special groups: first, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering; second, Biology, Geology, Anthropology and Forestry; and third, Foreign Languages and Literature, ancient and modern. Competitors are at liberty to select the subjects of their essays, but the subjects must be approved in advance by the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes. No essay offered by a graduate may contain more than fifteen thousand words, it being understood that parts of doctoral dissertations are eligible...
...equivalent training, or who are candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in the University. Two prizes of $50 each are offered for translations into Attic Greek and Latin of prescribed passages in C. H. Moore's "Religious Thought of the Greeks," and Macaulay's "Critical and Historical Essays," respectively. A prize of $100 is offered to all other resident students for an original essay in either Greek or Latin of not less than three thousand words on any subject chosen by the competitor, written by a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence...