Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Attention is called to the fact that essays for three prizes are due tomorrow. The William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 is offered by the National Municipal League for the best essay on the subject: "Is the Commission form of Government a Permanent One?" This prize is open to all undergraduates. All essays should be sent to C. R. Woodruff, secretary of the National Municipal League, Philadelphia...
...best essay on "International Arbitration," the Lake Mohonk Conference offers a prize of $100 to an undergraduate. Manuscripts should be sent to H. C. Phillips, secretary Lake Mohonk Conference, 3531 Fourteenth street, Washington...
...David A. Wells Prize in economics of $500, for the current year has been awarded to Dr. Eliot Jones, A.M. '12, now instructor in the University of Pennsylvania. His essay is entitled "The Investigation of the Anthracite Coal Industry," and will be printed in the series of economic studies published by the department of Economics. Dr. Jones was instructor in Economics at Harvard...
...David A. Wells Prize was founded by the distinguished economist, whose name it bears; and the fund which he established provides not only for the payment of this prize (the largest pecuniary prize offered in the University), but also for the publication of the essay. The prize is offered for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation, upon some subject in the field of economics...
...opinions expressed are for the most part sound: what can be the matter? The answer is to be found in the leading article by Mr. Coggeshall, "A Harvard Man's Impressions of Oxford." Like the other contents of the number this article is in no sense a literary essay. It is of a "newsy" character appropriate to the magazine. But it possesses distinction of style; it is readable. The other articles hold the reader rather by the interest of their subject matter than by the skill of presentation...