Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best theses on phases of the prison problem, prepared by students in preparatory schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. One prize of $50 will be awarded for the best Master's thesis. Two prizes of $25 each will be presented to the author of the best undergraduate essay and to the preparatory school student who writes the best essay on the subject...
...Each essay should show an understanding of the nature and history of international arbitration apart from and in connection with the Hague Conferences and Hague Court, and may also refer to, or subject to the above requirement, emphasize such subjects as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the proposed Judicial Arbitration Court, Good Offices and mediation and Commissions of Inquiry, as treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes," adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, and in the "Draft Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court," agreed to by the second Hague Conference...
Each contestant is requested to append to his essay a list of works consulted, if possible with specific references...
...Each essay should bear a nome deplume or arbitrary sign which should be included in an accompanying letter giving the writer's real name, college, class and home address. Both letter and essay should reach H. C. Phillips, secretary Lake Mohonk Conference, 3531 Fourteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C., not later than March 15. Essays should be mailed flat...
...eighth Pugsley prize brought out 43 essays. The prize was won by George R. Fairlamb, Jr., a sophomore in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Mr. Fairlamb's essay is published by the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration and can be obtained on application to the secretary. The next in order of merit were Ralph S. Underwood, of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., second place; Charles M. Ross, of Eureka College, Eureka, Ill., and Summerfield Baldwin, 3d, '17, tying for third place...