Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examination is intended to be a test of power, so arranged that no special preparation for it can be made. A list of subjects is submitted and each candidate is to write on the spot an essay on one of them. The award will be made not solely upon the basis of the examination, but the general record of the candidate and his ability as shown in other written work will be taken into account...
Announcement was made yesterday that the Baldwin Prize of $100, which is offered annually by the National Municipal League for the best essay on a subject in municipal government, has been awarded to George Herbert McCaffrey '12, of Roxbury, for an essay an "The Police Administration of Boston." Competition for this prize is open to undergraduate students in any college or university of the United States, and there are usually competitors from a score or more of institutions, including all the larger universities. This is the fourth consecutive year in which the prize has been won by a Harvard student...
...examination a list of subjects is submitted and each candidate is expected to write on the spot an essay on one of them. Some of the subjects will be in Economics, some in History, and some in Government. The examination is intended to be a test of power, so arranged that no special preparation for it can be made. All students who intend to compete should leave their names in the office of the Department of Economics in Upper Dane...
...essays for the Bowdoin Prizes should be left at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, University 20, before 1 o'clock today. Between 1 and 6 o'clock they may be left at the house of the Chairman of the Committee, Professor E. K. Rand, 107 Lake View avenue. No essay will be accepted after 6 o'clock...
...more in touch' -- abhorrent phrase -- with this or that,--athletics, the graduates, etc." "The magazine," he continued, "at any rate in my day, preserved a fine uselessness. I hope it does still!" The Monthly is certainly getting very much "in touch." The present number contains one brief essay, three 'stories, and five poems, at least one, "To a School fellow," by C. V. Wright, being of real excellence; but the balance of the number, one-half of its contents, is devoted to "The Case against the CRIMSON." Judging from their use of bold type, and the preconcerted and gratuitous nature...