Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual prize of $100 offered to students of the Law School by Addison Brown '52, late judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, will be competed for this year. The prize is given for the best essay on any one of a group of designated subjects of maritime or private international law. The list of subjects for this year follows...
...Every essay offered for the prize must be legibly written or typewritten upon quarto size paper which can be bound. The title page must bear an assumed name and the writer must turn in a sealed letter containing his real name inside and the assumed name on the outside...
...current Advocate is rich in fiction but relatively poor in verse and contains but two articles. The latter are in some respects the most interesting contributions to the number. They echo many a dispute about verslibre. Mr. LaFarge attacks, Mr. Jayne defends, the new form. Mr. Jayne's essay is very thoughtful but we can imagine becoming quite as absorbed in "Paradise Lost" as in "Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions...
Only, to be frank, the suitability of elephant-gray to the purpose in hand might be questioned. Some men do bear strong similitude to an elephant weighing anchor when they essay a rush from skirmish line. Others advance more like the familiar kangaroo. Perhaps, all in all, rhinoceros-gray would suit best the complexion of a recruit...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Comparative Literature of $100 has been awarded to James Buell Munn '12, of New York, N. Y. The subject of Munn's essay was "The Development of Plot and Characterization in Early Greek and Early Elizabethan Tragedy, with Special Reference to the Works of Aeschylus and Marlowe." Munn is a fifth-year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...