Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although most prize competitions do not close until April or May, it is already high time for men to begin thinking about them, for a prize essay needs a great deal of time--time for research and study of the question, time for careful assimilation and thought, before any writing. For this reason the CRIMSON published about a month ago, November 6, a list of prizes with brief information about each. Prize work is and always must be voluntary and its benefits can accrue only to those who go out of their way to make the necessary sacrifice of time...
...would be keener, but the essential benefit of prize work to the individual would be lost. This benefit comes from the fact that a man works for a prize voluntarily and of his own free will. The knowledge that he gains from the work sinks deeper because the prize essay is essentially his own and his whole interest...
...Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on "International Arbitration" written by an undergraduate male student of any college or university in the United States or Canada...
...Essays must not exceed 5,000 words and must be written (preferably type-written) on one side of plain paper of ordinary letter size. Each contestant should append to his essay a list of books consulted, with specific references if possible...
...name of the writer must not appear on the essay, but a letter should accompany it, giving the writer's name, class, college, and home address. Both letter and essay should reach H. C. Phillips, Secretary Lake. Mohonk Conference, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., not later than March 15, 1912. Essays should be mailed flat...