Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Comparsion of the views presented in Bacon's essay on "The True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates," with those in Sumner's oration on "The Grandeur of Nations...
...reduction of fares on the U. R. R. took effect on that day. I now sit in my window and watch the professors, and occasionally a student, go to recitation. Don't imagine that I'm wasting my time. Far from it: I am writing a Cobden Prize Essay on, "Satan viewed as the originator of two-wheeled locomotion; or, several substantial reasons why I wish I had never been born...
...Essay read before the Quizzical Club...
...essays must be deposited with the Secretary of the Finance Club on or before Dec. 1, 1881. The titlepage must, with an assumed name, state of what class the writer is a member. A sealed letter must be sent in at the same time, under cover with the essay, containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with his assumed name...
...author of the successful essay is invited to read it in public at a time and place to be designated by the Executive Committee of the Finance Club...