Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of Yale students will compete for the prize of $50 offered by Lippencott's Magazine for the best essay of at least 4000 words on "Social Life at Yale...
...executive committee of the American protective tariff league has offered to the students of senior classes in all American colleges a series of prizes for approved essays on the subject, "Advantages of a protective tariff to the labor and industries of the United States:" each essay not to exceed 10,000 words, and to be sent to the office of the league on or before May 1, 1887, awards to be made June 15, 1887, as follows: For best essay, [$250; second best, $100; third best, $50. And for other essays deemed especially meritorious, a handsome silver medal, designed...
Attention is called to the fact that the Cobden Club, of England, offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present under-graduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject. For the year 1886-7 the following subjects are suggested: - 1, The duties on wool and woolens; 2, Shall the state assume the control of the railways?; 3, The effect of the legal tender quality on the value of paper money; 4, Profit sharing...
...Amherst Lit offers prizes of $20 for the best story, $15 for the best poem, and $15 for the best essay...
Ready for courses in elocution: Vol. 5 of Modern Classics, 35 cents. Fletcher's Advanced Readings, 95 cents. Attention is called to some general books recently added to the stock, among which are Emerson's Essay's, first series, 10 cents. Emerson's Works, 11 vole., $12.83. English Men of Letters, 53 cents per vol. Dickens' Works, 30 vols., $30.00. Hawthorne's Works, 12 vols., $16.00. American Statesmen, 84 cents per vol. Colton's new Portfolio Scrap Book, containing 31 envelopes, with index, $1.40. A good line of leather traveling bags. Pizard's La France, in 1789, is ready...