Word: essays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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mount the stormy tide, essay to ride the foaming billows in the mountain waves of science, and thus in the whirlpool of commotion in the files of the nation
...Fletcher Prize of $500 for an essay on "The best means to counteract the worldly influences surrounding Christianity," has been awarded to Rev. Wm. W. Farris, of Peoria...
...Edmund H. Bennett, dean of the law school of Boston University, has offered a prize of $50, to be known as, the "Hillard prize," for the best essay written by any member of the school during the school year...
...Intercollegiate Literary Association announces for this year examinations in Latin and mental science in addition to the contests in oratory and essay-writing and the examinations in Greek and Mathematics. The subjects for essays are: "The Federalist Party in the United States," and "Hawthorne's Place in Literature...
...should judge, of immediate interest to the students. Would that we could say the same of all our college journals! There's the Amherst Student for one, out of many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter, why not either shorten the paper or publish none...