Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the Toppan Prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxon Toppan '58, of Cambridge, was awarded for 1915-1916 to Clarence Henry Haring '07, Ph. D. '16, for an essay entitled, "Trade and navigation Between Spain and the Indies Under the Hapsburgs." The judges were Professor Guy S. Ford of the University of Minnesota and Professor William MacDonald of Brown University...
...Bennett Prize of $76, from a fund established by James Gordon Bennett of New York, offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental policy, was awarded to Sydney Zanditon '17. The subject of his thesis was, "The Railway Wage Problem." The judges were Mr. Arthur D. Hill '94 of Boston president of Dartmouth College...
...anonymous graduates are arranging to send to each member of the Freshman Class a copy of a book containing four essays on college life. The first of these is "Soldiers' Field," the address made by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 at the dedication of the University's present athletic field; then follows a selection from the essay "Habit," by the late Professor William James '69 in which the necessity of habits without exceptions is emphasized. The other two selections are Dean Briggs' "Mistakes of College Life" and the Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1903, "Mater Fortissima." These little books will...
...Toppan Prize of $150, awarded in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been given to Homer Hews Vanderblue, Ph.D., '15, for his essay of "Railroad Valuation...
This prize is awarded annually or biennially for the best essay by one of the students in the Law School on some designated subject of maritime or private international...