Word: essays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...edition of Le Pedant Joue, including an introduction on the life and works of Cyrano de Bergerac, by H. B. Stanton '00, is a most satisfactory piece of work. Besides the introductory essay and M. C. H. L. N. Bernard's revised edition of the text there is a short preface by Professor Ferdinand Bocher...
...been delighted with the romantic manliness and nobility of M. Rostand's hero. The actual Cyrano, it was known from the start, had been poetically idealized by M. Rostand; but the extent of the liberties with history could not hitherto be accurately determined. In the light of the present essay, the real Cyrano turns out to have been a brawler and a bully, full of the extravagance of the early free thinkers. "Not at all the man who after overcoming a hundred assassins could turn about and conquer his own love in his loved one's very presence...
...Faculty meeting held last Tuesday, the Toppan prize of $150 was awarded to Arthur Lyons Cross '95, now instructor in the University of Michigan, for an "Essay on the Angelican Episcopate and the American Colonies." The judges were Professor Barrett Wendell, Rt. Rev. Bishop William Lawrence, D.D., and Mr. Andrew McFarland Davis...
...Sumner prize of $100 was awarded to William Bennett Munro, A.M., '99 for an essay on the "Feasibility of an Universal Staatenbund." The judges were Mr. Charles C. Beaman of New York and Professor E. H. Strobel...
...graduates, a single prize of three hundred dollars is offered for this year for an essay on a subject within the range of ancient and modern language, literature and fine arts; the precise subject here also being left to the choice of the writer. In subsequent years prizes for graduates will be offered within other departments of knowledge...