Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be given for the best these by a graduate or undergraduate student in the University or Radcliffe College, on any subject in the field of Comparative Literature approved by the Chairman of the Department. The other of the value of $50, will be given for the best essay by an undergraduate of the College on a subject in the field of Comparative Literature concerning the Middle Ages or the Renaissance...
...Record, and filled four pages with an all-comprehensive dissertation on canines from Noah's time to this. It begins with the Darwinian theory, includes mention of the drawings on the tombs of the Egyptian Kings, and contains almost every dog enlogy except Goldsmith's famous elegy. The essay has well over one hundred paragraphs, and is full of ance dotes, pathetic stories, and amazing statistics...
...Time Responsibilities of Pacifists." Believing that war is preventable, Mr. Wood draws an interesting analogy between the flood-prevention work of a civil engineer on the banks of the Mississippi, and the various opportunities for prevention work which are now open to lovers of peace. The tone of the essay is conciliatory and well-bred. It neither barks nor bites...
...public competition for the Boylston Medical Prize of $300, offered every other year by the Medical School for the best essay on a subject in medical science, has been won by Professor A. N. Richards and Dr. J. T. Wearn of the University of Pennsylvania...
...winning essay by Professor Richards and Dr. Wearn sets forth the results of some original investigations on kidney function, and was selected for the award of the Boylston Prize on account of its value in cleaning up many of the uncertainties, in regard to this subject. The essay was entitled, "Observation on the composition of the Glomerular Urine with Particular Reference to the Problem of Reabsorption in the Renal Tubules...