Word: prose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bowdoin prizes have been awarded as follows: to W. M. Fullerton, '86, $75 for an essay on "Alexander's Campaign in the Punjamb"; to H. T. Hildreth, $50 for a translation into Attic Prose...
Emerson. Fifty pages of prose, (earlier works preferred...
...last Harvard commencement dinner, and again at the dinner of the bar last night, is as much above the common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose, being conceived in the loftiest spirit and broadest view, and scarcely less perfectly chiselled and polised in form than if they were in verse." -Boston Transcript...
...German-Lessing, Schiller, Goethe and c. Translation at sight of modern German prose. Grammar and composition...
...French-George Sand, LaFontaine, Moliere, and c. Translation at sight of modern French prose. Grammar and composition...