Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...manuscripts for the Francis Boott Prize of $100 must be left with Mr. Arthur Foote, 6 Newbury street, Boston, by Saturday, April 22. The prize will be awarded for the best composition written in four voices (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass), for chorus, with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment. The time required for its performance must not exceed six minutes. The words shall be either English or Latin, religious or secular, original or selected. The prize composition will be performed in the College Chapel with chorus and organ. The competition is open to undergraduates...
...most successful play of the evening was "Manacles." The lines are well-written, and the action vigorous. The confrontation of the socialist strike-leader and the pitiless manufacturer yields little dramatic novelty, but it is amazingly well done. Its being a play "with a purpose" gives it boldness, unity, and sincerity, without detracting in the least from its vividness. Joe Patterson, the strike-leader, impelled by want to attempt burglary, is surprised and captured by the manufacturer, whose house he has entered. There follows a scene in which the strike-leader, having unmasked himself, gives voice to the wrongs...
Professor Royce's suggestion that a prize be offered for the best of original compositions written by Harvard and Yale undergraduates is worthy of serious consideration. At present, each college confers honor upon the undergraduate author of the best piece of writing submitted in competition each year. Here at Harvard the honor for literary excellence takes the well-known form of the Bowdoin prize. At Yale there is a parallel prize. Why should not a few of the better compositions for both these prizes be submitted to a board of impartial judges to decide which, according to its opinion, most...
...large it would be an intercollegiate affair, not a matter of one individual against another), there would be the secondary interest of discovering whether or not the paper finally selected would be one of the two awarded the prizes at their respective colleges. For instance, if a paper written by a Harvard man was declared the best, would it always be the winning composition of the Bowdoin prize or would it perhaps be only a paper given "honorable mention"? Even more important than these considerations, however, would be the healthful stimulus given to academic interest in things literary. Except...
...whole number of the Monthly is well written, important in what it has to say, and, with the exception of Mr. Carb's rather degrading attempt at realism--which I have perhaps made too much of in taking seriously--is one of which the editors may well be proud...