Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Monthly begins the College year with a number that gives good promise of the new board's upholding the best traditions of the magazine. In variety and proportions the contents are typical,--two stories, four poems, a piece of criticism, an essay, and some discussion of current University topics. Of the stories, the conventionality of "The Heart's Desire" illustrates once more the difficulty of doing anything fresh with Class Day, a senior, and a debutante. "The A B C's of Diarism" is, in spite of the somewhat obvious influence of Henry James, much more individual than the other...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has awarded the first undergraduate Bowdoin prize of $250 to Hyman Askowith '07, for a essay on Johnson's Literary Achievements; the second undergraduate prize of $100 to Theodore Francis Jones '06, for an essay on the Doctrine of Indulgences. The graduate prizes of $200 each have been awarded to George Newman Fuller of the University of Michigan, for an essay on John Wycliffe and the Doctrine of Transubstantiation: and to William Jones Musgrove of the University of California, for an essay on the Place of Pleasure in Kant's Ethics...
...last meeting of the Esperanto Society for this year was held in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon. Owing to the small number of competitors, it was decided not to award the Ostwald prizes for an essay and a speech in Esperanto until next fall, and the time for closing the competition was extended to that time...
...sent by mail to the home of Professor E. F. Gay, 58 Highland street. The examinations for the prize will be held in University 23 on Saturday, May 26, between 9 and 12 o'clock. Each candidate will be called upon to write in the examination room an essay on a topic, chosen by himself from a list not previously announced, in economics and political science. Any student in the University who will be next year a member of the Senior class or of the Graduate School is eligible. The scholarship yields an income of three hundred and fifty dollars...
...subjects for their speeches before 5 o'clock. Speeches may be made on any, subject and must occupy a period of at least five minutes. They will be delivered at the regular meeting of the club on May 15, when the name of the winner of the essay prize will be announced...