Word: essays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gerard J. Mangone 2G of Middletown, Conn., has won a Sumner Prize for an essay entitled "The Idea and Practice of World Government...
Inis L. Claude, Jr. 2G of Conway, Arkansas, has won a Chase Prize for an essay entitled "The International Treatment of the Problem of National Minorities...
...Harvard believes in the "free trade in ideas" of Justice Holmes--a graduate of 1861--which is no more than saying that she believes in the principles of Milton's "Arcopagitica" (1644), of Jefferson's First Inaugural (1801), and of Mill's "Essay on Liberty" (1859). She thinks that repression is not wise or workable under our system, that wide latitude for conflicting views affords the best chance for good government, and that in suppression usually lies the greater peril. Harvard is not afraid of freedom, and believes adherence to this principle to be fundamental for our universities...
Theory & Practice. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Fred Viegel, 19, winner of a 1947 prize for an essay on fire prevention, was charged with burning down a rural schoolhouse...
...Benjamin Cardosa prize, consisting of a $500 grant, was awarded to Gardnerd Edmond Lindsey, 3G, of Rutherford, New Jersey, for an essay entitled, "An Experimental Study of Displacement of Aggression with Particular Reference to Minority Group Prejudice...