Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday, the Toppan Prize of one hundred and fifty dollars was awarded to William Bennett Munro, A.M., for an essay on "The Feudal System in Canada...
...method of awarding the Bowdoin Essay Prizes for 1900-1901 will be the same as that followed last year. A distinction will be made in favor of undergraduate work, for which there will be a first prize of $250, and a second prize of $200. For the best essay by a member of the Graduate School there will be a prize of $300. The rules governing the contest are as follows...
...graduate competition will be open to all holders of academic degrees who have been in the Graduate School for a full year. The range of the graduate essay subjects will be limited to philosophy, political science and history. Essays that have been presented for other prizes or for academic degrees elsewhere than at Harvard College, will not be accepted. As in the case of the undergraduate essays, the topics or subjects must be approved in advance by the Prize Committee, and handed in at the same time and place. The rules on page 470 of the last catalogue also apply...
...Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments,' in her finest forms and in her vital energy,-Nature as she was revealed to a discriminating eye, and to the poetic imagination." With this feeling he began his essay on 'Modern Painters' that grew to five volumes...
...Deschamps has written a number of books. Two are upon his eastern explorations--"Sur les routes d' Asie" (Colin et cie., 1894), and "La Grece d' aujourd' hui" (Colin et cie., 1892). "Marivaux" (Hachette et cie., 1897) is a critical literary essay, while "Le malaise de la democratie" (Colin et cie., 1899) is a recent political essay. His most ambitious work is a series of treatises in five volumes, entitled "La vie et les livres" (Colin et cie., 1894-97). M. Deschamps has also written a novel "Champfleury...