Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University of Chicago has been enabled, through the generosity of Messrs. Hart, Schaffner and Marx, of Chicago, to offer again in 1908, as in the past three years, four prizes for the best essay on any one of the following subjects...
...National Municipal League has established an annual prize, called the "William H. Baldwin Prize," to be given to the author of the best essay on a subject connected with municipal government. For the year 1907-98 the competition will be limited to undergraduate students registered in a regular course in any college or university in the United States offering distinct instruction in municipal government, and the essays will be limited to 10,000 words in length. The prize will be awarded by three judges selected by the executive committee of the League, and the name of the winner will...
...subject of the essay for 1907-08 is "The Relation of the Municipality to the Transportation Service," and those entering the competition are expected to treat the following sub-divisions...
...Jacob H. Schiff, of New York, has offered to the Harvard Menorah Society the sum of $100 annually until further notice to be awarded as a prize for the best essay by an undergraduate in Harvard College on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish nation. The prize, which will be known as the "Harvard Menorah Society Prize," will be awarded for the first time this year...
...essay on Stephen Phillips, by J. T. Addison, goes, without question, to the heart of the whole matter. By means of admirable selections the writer demonstrates Mr. Phillips's virtues and defects as a poet; and continuing classes him as a playwright--one versed in the theatrical--as opposed to a real dramatist--an objective student of character. The comparison with Shakespeare, urged for the purpose of bringing out Mr. Phillips's dramatic flimsiness, might easily have been made more illuminating by slightly profounder meditation...