Word: essay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roosevelt Scholarships for the aid of college students will henceforth be awarded annually by a contest to be held in several states for the best essay on his life, according to an announcement from the recently organized Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association...
...most striking distinction of all was won by John F. Fulton Jr. '22 of St. Paul, Minn., who carried off one of the two first Bowdoin Prizes of $250 for dissertations in English, and also was awarded one of the second prizes of $100 for another essay, under the rule which allows a student to enter more than one essay for the prize. The other first Bowdoin Prize was won by Jacob C. Kelson '22 of Springfield, Mass., and the other second prize by R. N. Dett Sp. of Hampton...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75 for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, goes to Elliot Doniger '20 of New York City. The Francis Boott Prize of $100 awarded to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music goes to R. N. Dett Sp of Hampton, Va., while the George Arthur Knight Prize for the best composition in instrumental music goes to Randall Thompson '20 of Lawrenceville, N. Y. The Jeramy Bleknap Prize of $50 for the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College...
...Harvard Menorach Society Prize of $100 for an essay by an undergraduate on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people, has been won by Joseph S. Shubow '20 of Dorchester, honorable mention being given to Nathaniel R. Taran '21 of Roxbury. Half of the Dante Prize was awarded to Walter L. Bullock, a first-year graduate student from Rugby, England. The Ricardo Prize Scholarship in Economics has been awarded to Elmo P. Hohman 1G. of Nashville, III. The Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace has been...
...Keyser's "Ride Them Hosses" is a bit of sufficiently vivid cavalry, experience. A. K. Train has discovered the possibility of producing a Punch-like essay by exploiting philosophy and animatism. Mr. Train might do a public service by popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...