Word: monographs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Charity Monograph: - a biography of a characteristic pauper family...
...Labor Monograph: - the recent history (five years) of a street railway employees' union...
...third of the series of monographs published under the authority of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women is a treatise entitled "Fugitive Slaves," written by Marion Gleason McDougall. This is the first of the Fay House Monographs devoted to a historical subject, the two former having dealt with scientific subjects. In the present monograph the author has undertaken to bring together a compact account of the whole subject of the escape of slaves, and of the legislation to prevent escapes. Beginning with colonial times the writer recounts many famous cases of attempted escape, including the little-known failure...
...Timmins prize of $100 for an essay upon Dante and His Times, offered for the first time this year by the Harvard Annex, has been awarded to Miss Lucy Allen Paton, who has nearly completed the course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, The title of the monograph is "The Personal Character of Dante as Revealed in his Writings...
...next number of the Harvard Philological Studies a monograph on the existence of the Greek stage from the evidence furnished in the plays of Aristophanes, by Professor John Williams White, will appear, which will doubtless attract a general interest not only among authorities on Greek antiquities and trained scholars but also among those who have read Greek drama as literature only. For the settlement of the, question as to whether the principals in a Greek play acted on a long, narrow ledge, the Vetruvian stage, ten feet above the great circles of the orchestra where the chorus were grouped...