Word: essays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...original essay in Greek, of 2000 to 2500 words, on any subject chosen by the competitor...
...Ropes prize of one hundred and fifty dollars for the best essay on "The Execution of the Duc d' Enghien," open to students of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded to Sydney Bradshaw...
...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...
...Copeland's reading from the works of Oliver Goldsmith yesterday afternoon. His first selection was from a "Group of Songs" and included "The Three Jolly Pigeons" and another song originally written for the part of Miss Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Conquer." Mr. Copeland also read Thackeray's Essay on Goldsmith from "The English Humorists," "Bean Tibs at Home," from "A Citizen of the World," "The Haunch of Venison," and passages from "The Deserted Village" and "Retaliation...
Noticeable in the number is a scholarly essay entitled "The Idealistic Basis of Thoreau's Genius," by Daniel Gregory Mason 1G.; "Making it Easy for Martha," a somewhat gloomy but clearly drawn story by Arthur Stanwood Pier, and "As Runs the Glass," a rather weird sketch by R. P. Bellows...