Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...award of prizes for the Hart, Schaffner & Marx economic essay contests have been announced. In the Graduate Class, the first prize was awarded to Arthur E. Suffern, of Columbia; the second prize was won by G. P. Watkins, formerly of Cornell. These prizes amounted to $1000 and $500 respectively. Honorable mention was given to W. J. A. Donald, of Chicago...
...Moses, of the University of Wisconsin and previously of Harvard '15, has written an excellent essay on "Civic Spirit and the Harvard Forum." The main theme of his essay is the complaint that so little interest is taken by American students in public affairs. The writer deplores the fact that the class room is the only place where the student concerns himself with public conditions and urges in order to counterbalance this fact that the students at Harvard affiliate themselves with the Forum...
Echoes of the Great Game lurk in the current Advocate, but they are only echoes. Out of its seven contributions, one essay, one poem, and one story deal with athletics, and for such temperance in yielding to a present obsession the editors are to be praised...
...Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on "International Arbitration." The prize is given by Chester Dewitt Pugsley '09, and may be completed for by any male college undergraduate in America. The present contest closes on March 15, 1914. Each essay shall bear a "nom de plume" which should be included in an accompanying letter giving the writer's real name, college, class, and home address. The essays should be sent to H.C. Phillips, Secretary of the Conference, 3531 14th Street, N.W., Washington...
...William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 has again been offered by the National Municipal League for the best essay on the subject "Is the Commission Form of Government a Permanent One?" The essay must not exceed 10,000 words, must be typewritten in duplicate, and must bear a "nom de plume." Both copies must reach Clinton Rogers Woedruff, Secretary of the League, North American Building, Philadelphia; Pa., before March...