Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred and fifty dollars has been offered by the American Economic Association as a prize for the best essay on "The Evils of Unrestricted Emigration...
Prizes are offered as follows: For the best essay, $50; best story, $50; best poem, $15; second best essay, $50; second best essay, $50; second best poem, $10; best editorial in rostrum, $25. The essays and stories are limited to 6,000 words, and the poems to 40 lines...
...Dante prize of $100 has been awarded to G. R. Carpenter, A. B., Rogers Fellow, for an essay on "The interpretation and reconciliation of the different accounts of his experience after the death of Beatrice, given by Dante in the Vita Nuova, and the Convito...
...been urged by many, and at times in the columns of the CRIMSON, that the Advocate's province was distinctly light literature, not essays. However, by its persistancy in printing from time to time to time essays on literary subjects, the Advocate has persuaded many of its critics, and perhaps justly, that its field extends in both directions; yet without doubt it should give a decided predominance to light literature. In pursuance of this purpose, the present number has an essay on the "Meaning of Gulliver's Travels." The writer shows a thorough study of his subject, and, though...
Among the Topics of the Day the "Sentimentalist," the frequenter of Cornhill second-hand book-stores figures in a short, well-written essay. "Prescience," though a graceful piece of vorse, can hardly be said to impress one with a true poetic feeling...