Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college students and graduates of classes from 1926 to 1930 are eligible to enter an essay contest, now being conducted by The New Republic. First prize consists of $100, second prize, $75. The winning essay will be printed in The New Republic...
...purpose of the contest is to find out the type of college students prefer to attend, and to encourage thinking and writing about standards of academic life. No essay should be more than 2000 words in length...
...articles should be addressed as follows: The New Republic, College Essay Editor, 421 West 21 Street, New York City. All essays must be in the office of The New Republic on or before April 1, 1929, to receive consideration...
...questions to be answered in one hour, and a group of short summaries in "editorial style" not exceeding some 250 words each on eight or ten questions to be selected from a designated list and to be written in two hours. The latter arrangement is intended to replace the "essay topics" that have formed part of previous examinations...
...financial world in a depressed condition, with call money bringing 25% to 30%. Interested, able, he wrote an article showing the unsound condition of U. S. banking, likening the U. S. banking system to European banking during the Renaissance. Seeing no chance of publishing a critical essay written by a stranger, an alien, he put his paper in a desk-drawer, where it remained for four years. But in 1907, on the advice of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, he brought the article up to date, sent it to the New York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic...