Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Division of History, Government, and Economics calls attention to two prizes in political science for 1912-13. The Sumner Prize of $100 is offered for the best essay on the subject of universal peace and the elimination of war. The Committee on Prizes in Political Science suggests that essays this year be written upon one of the two following topics: "The kinds of international controversies which may properly be called 'justifiable';" or "International socialism as a force making for world peace...
...Bennett Prize, raised this year from $40 to $75, will be awarded for the best essay on a subject of American economic or political policy of contemporaneous interest. Essays submitted for a degree with distinction in History, Government, and Economics may also be offered for the Bennett Prize. It is open to Seniors in the College and to special students in their third or fourth year who have taken courses in political science and English literature...
...editorial supports the scheme for an essay competition with Yale with a somewhat portentous psychological discussion. There are two stories; the longer, "Edged Tools" by H.L. Rogers, tells with considerable narrative skill the hackneyed tale of a drunkard who recovers his manhood under the influence of a girl and who relapses when she marries another man; the shorter, "Mary Hunters' Chair" by G. P. Davis, cleverly indicates the romance of two middleaged people as perceived by their children. C. G. Hoffman's "Yesterday" is one of those nondescript pieces of prose which seek to describe an atmosphere and a mood...
...forwarding of interest in that country among American universities. Seven or eight graduates of Argentine colleges will come each year to Harvard and other universities to study in the Graduate Schools. President Lowell announced that a prize of $100 will be awarded by the University for the best essay on some subject connected with the Argentine Republic. The particulars of the competition will be announced later...
...Toppan Prize of $150, offered annually for the best essay on a subject in Political Science, has been awarded this year to Ralph Emerson Hellman, Instructor in Economics, for an essay entitled "Chicago Traction...