Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Latin is offered for a translation into Latin of the passage in Prescott's "Ferdinand and Isabella." Vol. II, Part II, Chapter I, beginning with "No sooner was the internal organization" and ending with "a by-word of political knavery." A prize of $100 is offered for an original essay in Greek or Latin of not less than 3000 words written by a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence for one full year within the period...
Competitors are at liberty to select the subjects of their essays, provided they are approved by the committee. Although an essay offered by a graduate may not contain more than 15,000 words, if desired, it may be part of a doctoral thesis...
...Philosophy at the University of California, as assistant professor and professor at Yale, and as professor of Philosophy at the University, where he has been since September, 1914. He is the author of "The Meaning of God in Human Experience," and a number of magazine articles, notably a recent essay in the Atlantic Monthly on the subject of "Moral...
...ideas. The book reviews display too little knowledge of the subjects with which they deal; and they are too perfunctory in character to make any real assessment possible. The Advocate ought not to allow philosophers in extremis to declaim upon the whimsies sponsored by Mr. J. M. Barrie. The essays on subjects of no special academic interest are, I think, all of them a little too over-mannered to be successful. The kind of thing they attempt can only be done well by a real master of the essay; and they belong rather to the sphere of well-meaning discipleship...
...annual contest for the Ricardo Prize Scholarship of $350 will be held in the Economics Seminar Room. The prize is awarded to that student who, at the time of the examination, shall write the best essay on a topic in economics and political science...