Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...offer of a prize of one hundred dollars for an essay on "Immigration" gives an excellent opportunity to members of Philosophy 5 to treat a subject which is growing to be one of the most important before this nation. At no time previous to the present has this question been treated so fully or so broadly by the foremost thinkers of the country, and we are fast coming to a time when some action will be necessary to be taken by the government. This subject, then, is one of special interest, and though competition for the prize is restricted...
Professor F. G. Peaboly announced yesterday that a prize of $100 would probably be offered to the members of Philosophy 5 for the best essay on the subject on Immigration. The prize has not as yet been finally tendered and so but little is known about it. It has been suggested that the sum should not be given until October in order to give the applicant the entire summer to work in. In case there should be no applicants the money might be devoted to the purchase of books for the Philosophy 5 literary. The gentleman who has offered...
...prize of $100 has been offered by Mr. William G. Low to the students of Columbia for the best essay on "The History and Progress of Civil Service Reform in the National, State, and Local Governments of the United States...
...translation into Greek from Emerson's Representative Men, the Essay on Plato, beginning. "This brings me to that central figure," and ending, "has so bewitched...
...translation into Latin from De-Quincey's Essay on Alexander Pope, from the beginning through the sentence ending "where earth is forgotten...