Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manuscripts for the annual Union essay contest, open to all members of the organization, may be submitted any time between now and March 1, at the secretary's office, it was announced by the graduate secretaries of the Union last night...
...announced-or lack of result. Some 10,000 citizens had tried to make Woodrow Wilson mean $25,000 to them. But, with the seventy-first anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson at hand, Dr. George McLean Harper, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton and foreman of the essay-judging jury, was obliged to announce that not one of the essays submitted was, in substance or style, "fit to be published without embarrassment and submitted to the critical judgment of educated men and women...
...contributions must be of the following types of literature: the brief familiar essay, from 500 to 1000 words, the informal personal sketch, from 300 to 600 words, the tabloid book review, from 50 to 100 words, the humorous or satirical sketch, from 100 to 300 words, the sonnet, 14 lines, the rondeau, 13 lines, the triolet, 8 lines, humorous verse, not more than 20 lines and not free verse...
...result of the recent Wilson Prize Essay Contest, four out of the seven men, winners of the only awards given, were Harvard students, it was announced recently by the board of judges. Only 14 essays out of 10,000 that were submitted were considered worthy of any prize, and these received only third place honors...
...essay on TIME received the prize. At the request of the League I am sending you my paper and a copy of my introductory words at the meeting...