Word: essays
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis LL.B. '77, through the Federation of American Zionists, offers a prize of $100 and a bronze medal for the best original essay on some phase of "Jewish Life and Culture in Palestine." The contest is open to all students in any college or university of the United States or Canada and will close the first of November, 1915, at which time the judges, Professor Frankfurter, of the Law School, Professor Gottheil, of Columbia, and Judge Mack, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, will render their decision. Especial emphasis will be laid on the extent...
...awards, three in the Graduate School and three in the College, have been made in the Bowdoin prize contest for dissertations in English, as follows: in graduate group 1, mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering, the prize of $200 was awarded to Gerald Louis Wendt 3G., of Boston, for an essay entitled "The Nature of the Atom"; in graduate group II, biology, geology, anthropology, and forestry, the prize of $200 was awarded to Guilford Bevil Reed 3G., of Berwick, N. S., for an essay entitled "Studies in Plant Diseases"; in graduate group III, foreign languages literatures, ancient and modern, the prize...
...undergraduates, the first prize of $200, was awarded to Robert Leopold Wolf '15, of Cleveland, O., for an essay entitled "Some Aspects of the Theory of Value"; and two second prizes of $100 each to Harold Gershom Files '15, of Roxbury, for an essay entitled "The Pessimism of Thomas Hardy," and to Leonard Solon Levy '17, of Cleveland, O., for an essay entitled "The Modern Jewish National Movement...
...Ricardo Prize Scholarship in economics for the year 1915-16 has been awarded to William Burke Belknap 2G. (Yale '08), of Louisville, Kentucky, on recommendation of the Department of Economics. The award is based on a competitive examination consisting of an essay written on an assigned subject without any previous preparation. The subject of Belknap's essay, which was chosen from a list of twenty offered, was "The Economies of Combination." The scholarship is one of $350, and the incumbent is expected to carry on his studies under the supervision of the Department of Economics...
...Lamont's descriptive essay on Pekin leaves the reader with vivid impressions, of swarming Oriental crowds, of a blue-tiled temple roof, of the distant throbbing of a great drum. So well rendered is its portrayal of the city's Kaleidoscopic charm and immemorial antiquity, that one wishes the narrative strain of its opening had been more consistently sustained...