Word: essay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door for the 29-mile drive into town (via an arterial gallingly named Roosevelt Road). After one recent commuting trip on which he noted that the crows seemed to be getting out of hand, he was moved to take over the Tribune farm column for a short essay on weapons: "The firearms manufacturers," he wrote, "have been dead from the neck up for about 40 years. . . . The crow easily gets away from anything the old-fashioned shotgun can throw at him. There is needed a crow gun to decimate this pest...
Wilbur A. Cowett '45 won the James Gerdon Bennett prize for his essay on "Civil Liability of the Bueaurocracy for Unilateral Administrative Acts." The income from the Philo Sherman Bennett fund was awarded to Sumner L. Feidberg '45 for his paper on "Chain Stores...
Most lucrative plum--the George B. Sohier Prize, worth $250 for the "best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature"--went to McArthur for his essay "Saints in Ambush." Haas was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize--$75--for his essay "The Monk and Don Juan" in the field of Spanish Literature of the Golden...
James B. Horigan 2G received a $150 presentation as the Bowdion Prize for Graduates (Classics). The award calls for an original essay in Greek or Latin of not less than 3000 words with the topic left up to the entrant's discretion...
There were no awards made this year of the Francis Bowen Prize in moral or political philosophy, or of the William Harris Arnold and Gortrude Weld Arnold Prize for an essay on "the true spirit of book-collecting...