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Word: essays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...series of winter entertainments by the students will soon begin. Next Friday the second annual public meeting of the Barnard Literary Association will be held in Hamilton Hall. An oration, an essay, and a debate on the question of coeducation, will compose the exercises. The great event of the college year will be on February 4, when the inauguration of Mr. Sech Low as president of the college will take place in the Metropolitan Opera House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia College Notes. | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

...constant demands of those students studying chemistry here for instruction in the science of Metallurgy have led the department to provide such a course. Furnaces for the essay of the simplest ores of gold and silver will be set up in the basement of the new addition to the museum, and will be ready for use at the beginning of next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

...librarian of Rutgers college has offered a prize for the encouragement of the study of American literature. Twenty-five dollars yearly will be awarded to that member of the junior or senior class who shall write the best essay upon a subject assigned in the field of American literature. The subject for the present year is "Benjamin Franklin as a man of letters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins has given notice that the American Economic Association, of which he is secretary, has received $500, to be awarded as prizes for the best essays on women as wage earners. The prizes will be $300 and $200. The essays must not exceed 25,000 words each and must be in the hands of the association previous to November 1, 1890. Any person is eligible to the competition. This series of prizes will probably be permanent. The next subject will be taxation with a still larger premium. The first competition was on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/29/1889 | See Source »

...Short Essay on the Practical Uses of Political Economy" is a poem written in perhaps too light a vein to appear in the Advocate. It possesses positive merits in movement and in point, but shows hasty work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 11/20/1889 | See Source »

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