Word: monographs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wide. Any American citizen is eligible to compete. The essays are to be submitted in typewritten form on or before October 1, 1920, to the secretary of the American Economic Association. No definite length is prescribed for the essays, but it is expected that each will constitute a small monograph of from 7,500 to 25,000 words. All inquiries regarding the contest should be addressed to the secretary of the American Economic Association, Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca...
...single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity for important service,-and the book or article would be set aside, and the job that was immediately necessary performed in its stead. Harvard was invariably...