Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bernice Veazey Brown, Radcliffe 1916, of Providence, R. I., won for the second successive year the William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 for the best essay on "Efficient Billboard Legislation." This is the first time since the prize has been competed for under the present rules that the same person has won it more than once. The prize was offered by the National Municipal League to all undergraduate students registered in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in municipal government...
...annual prize of one hundred dollars is offered for the best doctoral thesis of the year upon a subject in Political Science. In making the award, emphasis will be laid upon literary excellence. (2) A prize of two hundred dollars is offered in alternate years for the best essay of not more than fifteen thousand words on a subject in Political Science. The literary quality, as well as the substance of the essays submitted, will be taken into account in making the award. This prize will be offered in 1916-17 and thereafter every second year...
...graduate group, Odell Shepard 2G. is to receive a prize of two hundred dollars for an essay on "The solitude of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron," and Joseph Vincent Fuller 1G., of St. Paul. Minn., and Daniel Sommer Robinson 1G., of North Salem, Ind., received similar awards for their essays on "The War Scare of 1875," and "Non-Symbolic Idealistic Logic," respectively...
Joel Austin Dibble '16 of Milton, has been awarded the first Bowdoin prize for an undergraduate dissertation in English. His essay was entitled "A Reconsideration of Cibber." He will receive a bronze medal and the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars...
...Johnston '00, G. W. Pierce '04, L. J. Henderson '98, C. R. Post '04, and E. E. Day '09 has also recommended the award of the second undergraduate prizes of one hundred dollars and bronze medal to Edgar Louis Tiffany '16 of Dayton, Ohio, for his essay, "El Greco," and to Sidney Purton Pfeifer '16, of Cambridge, for his essay, "The dramatic instinct: Its value, place and use in the education of the child...