Word: essays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Herbert B. Adams of Johns Hopkins University has received the prize for the best essay on University Extension, offered by the University of the State of New York...
Notes in History 10 must be handed to Mr. Caffey Dec. 15. The second essay...
...Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. $450 has been divided into fourteen prizes, ranging from $20 to $40, which will be given to students of Semitic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, but only in case a high degree of excellence is attained. For the best essays by any students of the University on the ethical aspects of the modern social questions two prizes of $100 each will again be offered. The Boylston prizes for elocution are awarded to seniors and juniors, two first prizes of $60 each, and three second, of $45 each. The Toppan prize...
Another article of unusual interest is an essay on Richard III. by the late James Russell Lowell, which is but another evidence of the great loss American letters sustained in Mr. Lowell's death. This essay, it will be remembered, was read some years ago at Chicago, but has never before been printed. It is written in Mr. Lowell's incomparable style and is unusually valuable for the student of Shakspere...
...Reaction Against Ibsen" is a thoughtful essay on Ibsen's position at the present day - the attacks which have been made on certain characteristic features of his writings - and the justice of such onslaughts. After citing several passages from some of Ibsen's best-known plays to illustrate certain lines of thought with which some writers have lately picked flaws, the author states as his personal conviction that the hostile attitude of society towards Ibsen is only an illustration of that principle which is as old as life - the principle of self preservation, and further that "the cry that Ibsen...