Word: essays
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...graduates, a prize of $100 in offered for an original essay in either Latin or Greek of not less than 3000 words on any subject chosen by the competitor, written by a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year within the period 1905-08. Essays must be handed in not later than April...
...subjects for any of them may, within the limitations set down in the special announcement of each, be chosen by each competitor for himself, subject to the approval of the committee on prizes in political science. The proposed subject must be submitted not later than March 1. No essay offered for a prize in political science may contain more than 100,000 words, and the latest permissible date of delivery...
...article only remains to be mentioned: Mr. Paul Davis's "Things that Remind You." There is too much exaggeration in the rambling little essay--especially at the end, which the writer no doubt thought more humorous than it is; but there is also shrewd and accurate observation of human nature. It has individuality than any other piece in the present Advocate...
...leading article of the current Monthly is a serious and thoughtful essay on "Whistler and the Multitude" by L. Simonson. The author is mistaken, I think, in one of his main theses, that art has no message for the multitude; he is right if he limits himself to the Anglo-Saxon multitude, but wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Motion of a Violin String." (A Bowdoin Prize Essay.) Dr. H. N. Davis. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...