Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Child in Literature," by S. C. Hart, is an interesting essay on the place of children in literature. The author shows how, from the first appearance of the child in the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth, authors have more and more come to write of children out of interest and sympathy with the very child itself...
...announcement has been posted in University of the Paine Prizes which were offered for the first time last year. Two prizes of $100 each are offered by Hon. Robert Treat Paine for the best essay by any student of the University on the ethical aspect of modern social questions. One prize will be awarded for the best original investigation of some form of charity-work with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. The other prize will be awarded for the best original investigation of some special phase of the Labor Question with practical conclusions drawn therefrom...
...essays must be deposited with the Dean of Harvard College on or before Commencement, 1892. On the title page must be written an assumed name and a statement of the writer's standing, i. e. whether he is a graduate or undergraduate; if an undergraduate, to what class he belongs and to what department of the University. Under cover with the essay must be sent a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with his assumed name. Either prize may be withheld if no competitor appears to deserve...
...made that the Lit. medal has been awarded to Winthrop E. Dwight '93, of New Haven. The prize is a gold medal valued at $25, and is offered each year by the Yale Literary Magazine to that member of the Academic or Scientific department who shall compose the best essay. The medal was first offered in 1850, and has been awarded each year since with six exceptions. The subject of Mr. Dwight's essay was "The Melancholy Jaques...
...Cummings' penchant for adjective titles is again noticeable in his essay called "Fanciful." There are in it the same elements of originality and incoherency which marked his last effort in the December Monthly, "Rational." On the whole, however, "Fanciful" leaves a pleasant impression...