Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual slaves enlisted as Union soldiers; as reformer, and as author--essayist, romancer, and poet--Colonel Higginson was a man to know; and the sketch of his career and the tribute by Edward H. Hall '51 will help us to know...
...April 1 the contest for the Bowdoin Prizes closes. These prizes are given for dissertations in English, Latin, and Greek, the best English essayist receives $250, and the second and third best, $100 each. Dissertations in Greek or Latin must be translations of specified passages in English literature, and the rewards are prizes of $50. The Sohier Prize makes a liberal offer for English theses and the Philip Washburn Prize offers $75 for the best treatment of an historical subject. The leading Spanish scholar will receive $45, and the Toppan, Summer, and Bennett prizes of $150, $100, and $40, respectively...