Word: essayistic
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...queens lived, followed by a description of their early life and training. The two queens were then ably compared as to their personal character and career in after life - their respective relations as women, wives and queens, with their influence on the age in which they lived. The essayist concluded by a short summing up of the chief features in the careers and characters of the two queens compared, and the verdict of the student as to the life of each...
...Emerson as a poet and essayist was rated sixth or seventh in his class in Harvard," writes Josiah Quincy, whose letters have just been published. The names of the six or seven geniuses greater than Emerson have, unfortunately, escaped the memory of the biographer...
...Club regarding the Cobden Club medal. Last year the medal was awarded to Mr. Homer Gage, '82, there being only one other competitor. The medal itself is a very elegant affair, and well worth competing for, but the principal incentive should be the honor which falls to the successful essayist. The club includes among its members some of the most eminent statesmen and economists in the world, and election to the society is generally one of the rewards of success in this competition. Professors Dunbar and Gibbs and Dr. Laughlin are among the members of the club in this country...
...Western exchanges delight to treat of are sometimes truly formidable. A curious and interesting list might be compiled on these attempts at literary greatness. "Women in Literature," "Patriotism as a Virtue," or "The Saracens in Europe," are truly subjects that would do honor to a Bowdoin prize essayist, but must fill the reader of a college magazine with dismay...
...good effect of the Bowdoin and Boylston prizes is established beyond dispute, and nobody could be found to propose that a certificate of indigence be hereafter required from competitors. Yet, if it is wise to award a hundred dollars to a successful essayist without asking questions or requiring awkward confessions, it is difficult to see why it would not be well to encourage general scholarship in precisely the same way. In the case of "bread studies," the hope of the solid gain to which they lead makes other stimulus unnecessary. But a college wishing to compete with them in securing...