Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examination for the Ricardo Prize Scholarship will be held in University 23 this morning at 9 o'clock. Each contestant will be called upon to write in the examination room, and essay on a topic chosen by himself, from a list not previously announced, in economics and political science. The award will be made before June...
Graduate prizes of $200 each--One to C. L. B. Shuddemagen for an essay on "Mechanical Analogues for Electromagnetic Systems"; one to R. C. Mullenix for an essay on "The Neurone Theory: Its Development and its Present Suits"; and one to E. A. Hecker for an essay on "The Progress of Humanitarianism in the first three centuries after Christ, as exhibited in the extant Greek and Latin Authors of that Period." First undergraduate prize of $250 to K. Costikyan '09 for an essay on "Cardinal Newman's Religion." Second undergraduate prize of $100 to P. Mariett '11 for an essay...
...Walter Pater in words which suggest Pater's style, though the title to the verse is not quite happy. Mr. Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit of Traherne." Traherne is unknown to so many of us that Mr. Shepard would have done better to have made his essay more of an exposition. Mr. Grandgent Fils tells a story of war and love with realism and a sense of humor. In "The Winged Stone" Mr. Reed retells a story that is as old as the Greeks, that of the ambitious youth who has to choose between true happiness and wealth...
...current number of the Advocate is made up of five timely and well-expressed editorials, three poems, one play, three stories, and an essay. The verse is of the average undergraduate standard. The play attempts too much in a short space to be effective. Of the stories, "The Man in Puce Waistcoat" relates a humorous incident, apparently in Eighteenth Century England, of how the choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which...
...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...