Word: types
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Essays must not exceed 5,000 words and must be written (preferably type-written) on one side of plain paper of ordinary letter size. Each contestant should append to his essay a list of books consulted, with specific references if possible...
...Smith, of Tientsin, should prove interesting to a great number of men. That we are today able to witness the stages by which one of the largest nations of the world is in the process of changing a medieval form of government for representative institutions of the most modern type, is perhaps hardly due to our own efforts. Yet we should not therefore fail to realize our good fortune. The movement may not be successful, but it is an event which can not fail to be considered by future generations as an epoch in the history of China...
...essays on the late Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson reveal a type of Harvard man all too little known to us today. In the gentle-voiced, frail, friendly Cantabrigian who so recently died, few could have recognized the ardent lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual...
...train will be made up as follows: one day coach having about 75 seats, one composite car with about twenty-five movable parlor car seats; both of these cars will be occupied by men only; three parlor cars of the usual type, with swivel armchairs; two sleeping cars having double seats facing each other; the sleeping cars are especially adapted for parties of four people who wish to sit together. Members of the club may be accompanied by their friends and families on this train...
...Yacht Club has announced the conditions for the race between the Harvard and Yale Yacht Clubs to be sailed from New London to Oyster Bay after the boat races next month. A prize is offered for the boat making the best elapsed time over the course. Boats of modern type whose racing measurement under the present rule is known will be raced with regular time allowance. Other boats will be raced with some handicap system, probably based on overall length. Prizes are offered in each class and second prizes for those classes where there are four or more starters...