Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...National Municipal League offers a prize of $100, known as the William H. Baldwin prize, for the best essay on a subject connected with municipal government. This year the subject chosen is "The Administration of the Police Department in some city in the United States, with a population of over...
...essay must be typewritten and cannot exceed 10,000 words. It should be mailed to Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Secretary of the National Municipal League, North American Building, Philadelphia, Pa., and marked "For the William H. Baldwin Prize." All essays should be sent in before March 15, 1911. They should be submitted under an assumed name. The full name, address, class, and college, corresponding to the assumed name must be enclosed in a sealed envelope...
...family records" is sufficiently entertaining; and it is interesting to know that the name is still borne by relatives, though not descendants, of John Harvard himself. The author of the description of the Lampoon building fairly swells with pride as he enumerates the treasures concealed within its walls. His essay reads like the catalogue of an art museum, and is about equally effective as description. Professor Royce's short speech to and on Professor James is a delightful personal tribute, interesting to all who have known Professor James, either personally or through his books...
...Toppan Prize of $150 has been awarded to Robert Howard Lord 4G., A.M., of Plano, Ill., for an essay entitled "Austrian Policy and the Second Partition of Poland." The judges were Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 and Professor A. L. Cross '95, of the University of Michigan...
...last anniversary dinner, the first awards were made: James Gordon Gilkey '12 won the Sanborn-Carpenter Memorial Medal with his poem, "The Drifting Bell Buoy," and Haniel Clark Long '10 won the Founders' Medal with his essay on George Meredith...