Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awards for the annual Union Prize Essay contest, which started this year toward the end of February, were made yesterday by the committee of award. The prizes are two: a first prize of $36 and a second of $15, given to the two best essays of less than 2,500 words, which are of such a nature that they would be acceptable if published in any current magazine of high standard...
...first was awarded to Dwight Hunter Marfield '29 of Dayton, Ohio, for his essay entitled, "De Gustu Disputatio." The second prize, was given for an article called, "The Resurrection of a Lost Art," written by Henry Siggins Leonard '27, of Newton...
Numerous examples of the influence of weather upon military and naval operations are cited n the essay entitled "The Strategy of Weather in War," including not only the older "stock" examples but also several from the Great War. Professor McAdie was Senior Aerographic Officer, U. S. N. R. F., of the Nary during the War, and trained a considerable number of officers at Blue Hill for aerographic work overseas. "Weather in Peace," "The Structure of the Atmosphere," "Clouds, Fogs and Water Vapor," "Lightning," and "Droughts, Floods and Forecasts," are the subjects of the other five essays. There is thus...
...essay with which he won the prize of $300 deals with Financing Automobile Sales by the Time Payment Plan, and is a comprehensive and very practical exposition of a most timely subject, and one that is of almost universal interest...
...would be cultural rather than technical. The aspirant for this degree, though left more to his own resources than he had been in his undergraduate career, would still have access to lectures and the tutorial system. At the end of his term of preparation, the student would submit an essay, roughly corresponding to but much less exhaustive than the thesis for the doctorate, which would show his fitness to be considered a master of his field...