Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prize has been added to the list of those already offered by the University which is intended to encourage men to prepare themselves for journalism. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald offered the University the sum of $1000 to establish a prize for "the best essay in English prose upon some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest." The gift was gratefully accepted on the terms named in Mr. Bennett's letter which were briefly these: That the sum be kept invested and the interest there of be given annually...
Best general references: Sidgewick's Elements of Politics, - 403-420; Bryce's Amer. Commonwealth I. ch. IX; Dr. Snow in Amer. Hist. Asso'n Papers IV. 107-128; A. Lawrence Lowell's Essay's on Government; Hare's Const...
...criticism of Lowell's essay on "A Certain Condescension in Foreigners" is to be written for English A Saturday...
...true that Wordsworth "has no style"? [Quoted from preface to M. Arnold's "Selections from Wordsworth," xxii. Contra: Principal Shairp's "Aspects of Poetry;" Essay, Poetic Style in Modern English Poetry...
...encourage a taste for good reading by requiring the reading of good books; to induce boys to learn to write clearly and concisely, methodizing their knowledge at short notice, and to suggest to candidates obvious criticisms on their style by setting exercises in the correction of bad English. The essay, for the writing of which an hour is allowed, was meant to test the student's knowledge of the books read, and at the same time to test his ability to compose...