Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduates, three prizes of two hundred dollars each, to be substituted for the single prize of three hundred dollars offered in previous years, are offered for an essay of high literary merit in a special field of learning. For the year 1904-1905, one prize will be offered in each of the following divisions: 1. Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering; 2. Biology, Geology and Anthropology; 3. Ancient Languages and Literature. Any holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year, may compete for these prizes...
...Bowdoin prizes for English dissertations by graduates and undergraduates have been awarded as follows: graduate prize of $300 to H.A. Miller L.'02, for an essay entitled "Comparative Psychology of the Negro;" first undergraduate prize of $250 to W.H.L. Bell '04, for an essay entitled "The Tristram Legend in the Nineteenth Century;" second undergraduate prize of $200 to E.A. Hecker '05, for an essay entitled "English Grammar Schools." The prizes for Greek and Latin dissertations will be announced later...
...Toppan prize of one hundred and fifty dollars is offered annually for the best essay of sufficient merit on a subject in political science. This prize is open for competition to students in the Graduate School or of any of the Professional Schools who have received an academic degree, and to all graduates of Harvard College of not more than three years' standing...
...Bennett prize of forty dollars is offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. It is open only to members of the Senior class of Harvard College, and to certain properly qualified third and fourth year special students...
...article on "College Criticism and Literary Slang," re-enforced by the editorial comment, offers some pertinent suggestions. Apart from considerations of the value to literature of the critical essay, the question as a practical matter for undergraduates reduces itself to this: nine out of every ten men--the proportion is probably much larger--when they have occasion after leaving college to commit themselves to print, do so in some form of the essay. As furnishing discipline in this form of writing, no single subject is more interesting to students themselves and to their possible public than literary criticism. With regard...