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...method of awarding the Bowdoin Essay Prizes for 1900-1901 will be the same as that followed last year. A distinction will be made in favor of undergraduate work, for which there will be a first prize of $250, and a second prize of $200. For the best essay by a member of the Graduate School there will be a prize of $300. The rules governing the contest are as follows...
...graduate competition will be open to all holders of academic degrees who have been in the Graduate School for a full year. The range of the graduate essay subjects will be limited to philosophy, political science and history. Essays that have been presented for other prizes or for academic degrees elsewhere than at Harvard College, will not be accepted. As in the case of the undergraduate essays, the topics or subjects must be approved in advance by the Prize Committee, and handed in at the same time and place. The rules on page 470 of the last catalogue also apply...
...Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments,' in her finest forms and in her vital energy,-Nature as she was revealed to a discriminating eye, and to the poetic imagination." With this feeling he began his essay on 'Modern Painters' that grew to five volumes...
...Deschamps has written a number of books. Two are upon his eastern explorations--"Sur les routes d' Asie" (Colin et cie., 1894), and "La Grece d' aujourd' hui" (Colin et cie., 1892). "Marivaux" (Hachette et cie., 1897) is a critical literary essay, while "Le malaise de la democratie" (Colin et cie., 1899) is a recent political essay. His most ambitious work is a series of treatises in five volumes, entitled "La vie et les livres" (Colin et cie., 1894-97). M. Deschamps has also written a novel "Champfleury...
...been awarded to G. H. Montague '01, of Springfield, Massachusetts. The Ricardo Scholarship is awarded on the basis of a special examination, but the general record of the candidates is also taken into consideration. In the examination this year the candidates were required to write an essay on one of twelve subjects set before them. The subject chosen by Montague was "Democracy and Empire." Twelve men in all took the examination. Among the other subjects were the following: Party Government; The place of the French Revolution in the world's history; The definition of sociology; Mill's "Political Economy...