Word: tappan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tappan prize on one hundred and fifty dollars for an essay in Political Economy has been awarded to Clyde Augustus Duniway, at present Assistant Professor of History in Leland Stanford University...
Captain L. W. Tappan, Jr., of the class of 1860, died at his home in Milton last Wednesday. He was born in Boston in 1840. After his graduation at Harvard he went abroad and studied law and languages at Gottingen. He returned after a year's absence and continued the study of law in an office and in the Law School. In 1862 he was commissioned first lieutenant and later captain of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. From 1863 to 1866 he was United States consul at Batavia, Java. Since then he has been interested in manufacturing and railroading...
...Tappan prize is open to all students of the Graduate School or any of the Professional Schools, who have received an academic degree, and to all graduates of the college of not more than three years' standing. It is only awarded to a work which embodies considerable research. Tappan prizes have been taken by Professors Channing and Taussig, and also by Professor Robinson, now of Columbia, and Professor Currier, of the Institute of Technology. The winning of the prize is a great distinction, and a successful paper would find ready opportunity of publication, either in Harvard Historical Studies or elsewhere...
...Warren, late member of Congress, became his partner, and the association continued until Mr. Warren's death in 1880. For four years after, Henry R. Brigham was associated with him, and this partnership continued until the death of Mr. Brigham. Since 1888 he had had as partners, Eugene Tappan and Bentley W. Warren, son of his former partner. His practice had been general in character, but he had large and valuable trusts in his charge...
...Tappan prize of $150.00 is offered for the best essay on a subject in Political Science. All students of the Graduate School or of any of the Professional Schools who have received an academic degree, and all graduates of the College, of not more than three years' standing can compete for this prize. The subjects are given in the catalogue. Essays must be deposited at the Secretary's office before...