Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class and among the members themselves, the professor simply retaining the right of exercising the functions of leader and critic. In studying an author or a period, the professor assigns to each student some special feature of the subject, upon which he is required to prepare a short essay. A number of these essays are read the next day in the class, and then the professor calls on any member to criticise the writer's statements. He himself following the method of Socrates, seeks rather to educate than to instruct his students. The system is reported to arouse great enthusiasm...
...students in college little realize what a priceless boon has been extended to them. A firm has been established in Chicago known as the "Student's Literary Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...
...under-graduate philosopher, it is said, is preparing an essay on the Nonreligious aspect of going to Chapel, to be submitted to the board of overseers...
Hamilton, '87, won the first of the prizes offered, under the name of the Old South prizes, for the best essays by recent graduates of the Boston High Schools. The subject of Mr. Hamilton's essay was "Why did the Pilgrim Fathers come to New England...
...literati is looking out for something to occupy his talents over, we would suggest to him that he write for the prize which the Russian Academy offers for the best essay on the life and reign of Alexander I. The minister of Alexander I. left a bequest of 50,000 roubles in charge of the Academy, with the conditions attached that the money, after accumulating for one hundred years, should be given to the writer of the best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation...