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...American Philosophical Society announces that a prize of $2,000, known as the Henry M. Phillips Prize, will be awarded for an essay on "The Treaty-making Power of the United States and the methods of its enforcement as affecting the Police Powers of the States." All essays must be type-written on one side of the paper only, and must bear an assumed name. All essays must be handed in to the American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth street. Philadelphia, Pa., before January...
...excellent that a number of the Advocate should contain so many ideas of immediate significance to Harvard men; but it should be remembered that ideas can be conveyed in fiction as well as in the essay. And the editorials, of which one is inaccurate and the others add little to the material contained in the rest of the number, might easily be strengthened. But from the worst sin of a college paper--that of lack of ideas--this number of the Advocate is notably free; and now it only remains for the paper to make its stories and editorials...
...subjects for prize essays may be chosen by each competitor for himself, within the special limitations of each prize, but must be submitted for approval to the Secretary of the Committee on Prizes in Political Science. No essay may contain more than 100,000 words; they must be handed in not later than...
...prize of $40, from a fund established by James Gordon Bennett, of New York, is offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. This prize is open only to members of the Senior class of Harvard College and to special students in their third or fourth year who have taken courses in Political Science and English Literature. Essays submitted for the degree with distinction in the Division of History and Political Science may be offered for this prize...
...prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxan Toppan '58, of Cambridge, is offered for the best essay of sufficient merit, on a subject in Political Science. The prize is open for competition to all students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or of any of the professional schools who have received an academic degree, and to all graduates of Harvard College of not more than three years' standing. Theses submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in the Division of History and Political Science may be considered for this prize...