Word: essays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...English Amiel" is the late Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College. Oxford. And Mr. Lovett has succeeded in this short essay of his in sketching the dominant characteristics of Pattison's nature, and in noting striking analogies between the morbidly sensitive Englishman and the author of the Journal Intime...
...prize of $100 has been offered to the member of the senior class at Princeton who writes the best essay on one of Shakespeare's plays. The subject for this year is "The Merchant of Venice...
...cast taken directly from the original death mask of Cromwell, which is in his possession. In 1873, Carlyle. in turn, gave it to Charles Eliot Norton. Later, when Carlyle left to Harvard his valuable library of works on Cromwell, which he had collected during the studies for his essay on him, Professor Norton presented the cast to the college and since then it has been in the library...
...members or nearly one-half of the whole number of former students known to be living, and includes representatives from the classes of 1825, 1829, and from every class from 1831 to the present time. The association offers an annual prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay upon any one of a list of subjects chosen by a committee of the association. The subjects for the current year...
Harvard men will find the frontispiece and the article immediately following it the most interesting parts in the New England Magazine for January. The title of each is "Phillips Brooks" and the author of the essay is Julius H. Ward, who has given us a most interesting account of the Bishop and his family. There are many illustrations - almost a score. The western men will find an article in the "City of St. Louis" much to their taste, as it is treated by Professor C. M. Woodward. This too abounds in illustrations - points of interest and public buildings...