Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current issue of the Advocate appear two thoughtful bits of essay, some stories and verse, little better than mediocre, and a flourish of well-turned play reviewing. The array is by no means despicable. One hopes, however, with the editors, that the three months' Tri-collegiate Competition proposed for next year, will aid in raising the standard of contributions...
...winning from a personal friend." Excellence in intellectual pursuits craves the approval of the masses, however seldom it gets such approval; and since effort in an intercollegiate competition is sure to win some degree of recognition from the undergraduate masses, the new plan may prove effective. The second essay is a plea by Mr. Peters to have enrolled upon the Memorial Hall tablets the names of Harvard men who died for the Southern Confederacy. The plea is against sectional prejudice...
...essays for the Advocate Prize competition must be sent to the Advocate sanctum in the Union or to Little's 21 by 6 o'clock today. Essays may be on any topic of general University interest, and should be between 2000 and 6000 words in length. The best essay will receive a prize of $200, and the second best a prize of $50. These two will be printed in the Advocate, and the Advocate also reserves the right to print any others that may be of sufficient merit. Announcement of the results will be made at the time...
...administrators have encouraged the handing in of theses written on all sorts of subjects in various courses. However, considering the age and honorable record of the Bowdoin Foundation, it should stimulate more interest and call forth more effort from the undergraduates. The value and training derived from writing an essay or thesis of merit in this competition justify the effort, even though this effort may win no material reward. The term of competition is now very limited, as the last day for submitting contributions is April first, and all who have been working for months on theses and essays...
There will be offered next year to any student of the University a prize of $100 for the best essay upon any subject relating to the resources, people, history, development, or relations of the Argentine Republic; for example, immigration, agricultural evolution, railroad extension. Drago, Sarmiento, possibilities of the central arid section, the sugar industry of Tueuman foreign trade conditions, and the Chilean boundary dispute. All manuscripts should be left at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty on or before...