Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...principal article in the first number will be an illustrated paper on "Architectural Acoustics" by Professor W. C. Sabine, with a practical discussion of a number of recent theatres, lecture halls, and churches. The number will also contain several drawings of important examples of European architecture and an essay on "The Mediaeval Town Halls of Italy" by H. E. Warren, S.M. in Architecture...
...David A. Wells Prize in economics of $500 for the current year has been awarded to M. T. Copeland p.'07, Ph.D. 1910, now instructor of economics in New York University. His essay is entitled "The Cotton Manufacturing Industry in the United States," and will be printed in the series of economic studies published by the department of Economics. Dr. Copeland was at one time instructor at Harvard, and also served as an assistant in Economics 6. The judges in this year's contest were Professor A. A. Young, Washington University, St. Louis; Hon. F. J. Swayze '79, Justice...
...Daivd A. Wells Prize was founded by a 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...
...Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on "International Arbitration" written by an undergraduate man student of any college or university in the United States or Canada. The essay must not contain more than 5000 words, (3000 words is suggested as a desirable number,) and must be in the hands of the secretary of the Conference, H. C. Phillips, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., not later than March 15, 1912. The judges are: Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Hon. Elmer E. Brown, and Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton...
...essay on "The Problem of Truth" is an important contribution to the subject, and is especially interesting as indicating the tendency of Professor Royce's thought toward the voluntaristic type of idealism. The remaining essays reveal the author's peculiar power to make this idealism eloquent, and to connect it with the personal problems of conduct and religion...