Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Menorah Society will be awarded this year for the second time. The competition is open to all undergraduates, who may choose their own subjects under the general head of Jewish history and culture. The subjects chosen must be approved by Professor C. H. Toy and the written essay handed to him before...
...subject for this year's William H. Baldwin Prize is "A Study of Practical Operation of Government in Some Large American City." This prize, of $100, is offered annually by the Municipal League for the best essay on a subject connected with municipal government. Competitors may select as their field of study any American city with a population of over 300,000. The competition, as in former years, is limited to undergraduates in American colleges which offer distinct instruction in municipal government. Essays must not exceed 10,000 words, and must be mailed or delivered to an express company...
...ordinary in comparison with these. "The Taming of the Shrew" is a Robert Chambers tale of a southern man and a college cousin who emerge, like Shadrach and Abednego, from a very vivid forest fire to find themselves engaged. "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Art," is a typical college essay of the lighter sort, pleasant, facile, well-written, and without much significance...
...lasting as to call for the use of heavier journalistic ordnance than the daily musketry of the CRIMSON? I must look, it is clear, at the Advocate not as a semi-monthly spokesman of College views, but as a carrier of light waves--of verse, stories, and the occasional essay. If the old Advocate was a bit ponderous, the new Advocate--is it my years?--seems to me not quite heavy enough. But when I come to examine the component parts of this issue, there are really no serious faults to find--no faults, I am sure, of which...
...impression--"essay" is scarcely the right word--of "Free Music" in the Union, on the other hand, is very erect and sprightly and sharp, yet with a word of kindliness and seriousness in the closing paragraph, which takes away any sting that might lurk in its pat and pointed remarks...