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Some years ago a man, not altogether averse to prominence at the Lake Mohonk peace conferences, offered $100 to the student in any American college who would write the best essay on the peace cause. With a great flourish of trumpets, the donor himself making a magnificent speech, the $100 was finally awarded. Statistics showed that if the prize had been divided equally among the contestants each would have received 82 cents for his labors. Of course, the contest may have been an aid to forceful writing, but the chances are that the same results could have been accomplished through...
...Lake Mohonk Peace Prize essays...
...award of the prize will be made at the Lake Mohonk Conference in May, 1917, to which the winner will be invited...
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...