Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Atlantic Monthly for May contains an article entitled "School Reform" in which Professor Munsterberg, after giving some interesting school reminiscences, argues against the elective system in schools and advocates the employment of competent teachers. In the same number an essay by Mr. J. H. Gardiner on "The Father of English Prose Style" traces the influence of the life and character of William Tyndale on the prose of the English Bible. Other articles by Harvard men are "An Ode in Time of Hesitation," by William Vaughn Moody '93, and a book review by Henry Childs Merwin...
...best unpublished monograph, based on original investigation in American history, that shall be submitted to the committee on award on or before October 1, 1900. In making the award the committee will take into consideration not only clearness of expression, logical arrangement and literary form. The successful essay will be published by the American Historical Association. All correspondence should be addressed to the chairman of the committee, Charles M. Andrews, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania...
...Century Magazine offers three prizes to all persons who receive the degree of A.B. this year, or who graduated with this degree in 1899. Each prize is of $250 awarded as follows: One, for the best metrical writing of not fewer than fifty lines; two, for the best essay in the field of biography, history or literary criticism, of not fewer than four thousand or more than eight thousand words; three, for the best story of not fewer than four thousand or more than eight thousand words...
...only critical essay in the number, on "The Catastrophe in Modern Tragedy," is excellent in its fundamental idea, but defective in expression. The statement of what the writer has in view is made in the opening paragraph, but so obscurely, and with so little stress, that it is soon completely lost. And though possessed of a knowledge of his subject and an extent of reading rare in an undergraduate, the lack of unity due to this failure to show the connection between the main idea and the details does much to weaken and to lesson the value of the essay...
...exercises. It was then the custom for each Divinity student who received assistance from the Hopkins Fund to read four theological dissertations, occupying about ten minutes each after evening prayers. In one year the students were required to listen to thirty-two such dissertations, among which were an English essay on "Ejaculatory Prayer," and a Latin disquisition on "The Hebrew Masoretic Points...