Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on "International Arbitration" by an undergraduate man student of any college or university in the United States or Canada. The prize is given by Chester DeWitt Pugsley '09, of New York, N. Y., and the essays will be judged by ex-President William Howard Taft, Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, and Professor A. K. Kuhn, of Columbia University. The contest closes on March...
Notice was received announcing the award of the David A. Wells Prize for 1916-17 to C. H. Haring '07, of New York City, for an essay on "Trade and Navigation between Spain and the Indies." This prize, which consists of an annual award of $500, is awarded through the Department of Economics for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation in the field of economics...
...Anything in the memoir which shall furnish proof of the identity of the author shall be considered as debarring the essay from the competition...
Predominant in the group of news-and-picture articles is the essay that Professor Muensterberg contributed to the Illustrated a short time before his death. It analyzes the records of the men who were in his psychology class last spring and drags forward the belief of the psychologist that Harvard undergraduates do not make full use of their own mental attainments. It is remarkable that one man should have won a rating of 100 per cent. in Dr. Muensterberg's test, but it is likewise remarkable that so many of the other students fell far below that grade...
...offending utterances to judge how far they warrant such an assault, but Mr. Wolf certainly makes his victim appear futile and irritating. At the end "A. K. MoC." interposes a few mild words in Galsworthy's behalf. "B. D. A." writes a review of Professor Perry's recent essays which is only a degree, less violent than Mr. Wolf's handling of Galsworthy, but from the opposite angle. Professor Perry, we learn, is illogical, prejudiced, engagingly naive, and delicately obscure. The reviewer makes the familiar assertion that large armies cause war, but offers no argument, historical or philosophical, to support...