Guide to the Prize Essay Collection,
1872-2012

First Place, Louis Nayman (pseudonym P.F. Catcher), "A Failed Poet" (30 pp. Typescript and photocopies of other 3 stories submitted).

Second Place, William Howard Mal (pseudonym Dee Speck), "The travelling Agricultural Implement Salesman and the Farmer's Daughter" (13 pp. Typescript).

Two winners: Marian Novick (pseud. Andrea Linder) Five part Short Story, Part I "Minsk, 1909", Part II "Manhattan, 1919" etc.; Moe R. Muni (Pseud. For Scott R. Sommer) Three stories: "The Hollow", "The Night the Carousel Burned Down" and "Dimminck's Notebook"

First Place, Scott Ballotin (Arts '78) "Mrs. Levitan" (22 pp. Typescript)

First Place, Raphael Seligman (Arts '82) "See you later, Aleator" (28 pp. Typescript)

The Elizabethan Masque and the Masque Character of Shakespeare's Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Walter C. Bronson

Shakespeare's Nature Lines, by Oscar Diedrich von Engeln

The Character of Ophelia, by John Bail

Love Seen Through the Comic and the Tragic Spirit, as Illustrated by Benedick and Beatrice, Romeo and Juliet, by Alice W. Benham

Shakespeare's Delineation of Insanity in King Lear, by H.M. Barr

The Treatment and Significance of Shakespeare's Tragedy of Passion, by William Shea

The Winter's Tale and Pandosto, How Shakespeare has Manipulated His Raw Material in Dramatizing the Story, by Charles Antoninus Carroll

Shakespeare's Fools and Clowns, by Fred S. Kleinman

Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II - A Comparison, by Florence M. Carpenter

Shakespeare's Hamlet - A Comparison with Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, by Miss Georgina Melville

A Sojourn in the Primeval, by Mr. Harper - illustrative matter

The Infinite Variety of Anthony and Cleopatra, by Colin A. H. Michael

Certain Excellences in Othello, by John W. Jones

The Macbeth of Shakespeare and the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, by Harry Caplan

A Criticism of "Coriolanus," by Miss Eva M. Seeger

The Last of the Ptolemies, by Rose S. Malmud

The Mental Response to Shakespeare, by Laura Keane Zametkin

Shakespeare, the Singer, by Desmond S. Powell

Why consider Shakespeare?, by H. F. Cook

The Supernatural Elements in The Tempest

Shakespeare's Interpretation of Justice, by Margaret L. Plunkett

The Women of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, by Frances M. Shattuck

The Infinite Variety of Cleopatra, by William Maslow

The Plutarchan Influence in Coriolanus, by George Simpson

Richard of Gloucester in History and in Shakespearean Drama, by Harold A. Lehrman

King Richard II, by Harold A. Segall

Marcus Brutus, by Philip Cohen

Shakespeare and the Aristotelian Tradition by John S. Lawrence

Poetic Imagery in Richard II, by John H. Detmold

Hamlet, a Revenge Tragedy, by Carla Small

The Relation of Real Life and Fantasy in Shakespeare's Comedies, by Robert S. Bernen

Some Remarks on King Lear, by Joanna Ruth Russ

Plot Structure in "Romeo and Juliet" by Sharon Dee Solwitz

On Pity in Hamlet, by David Ratner

Disguise, Reason, and Truth in King Lear by Mel Behr ( Martha E. Linke )

The Role of Edmund in "King Lear," by Jeremy Rabkin (First Prize)

Iago's Method: What Manner Poison for Othello's Ear, by L.M. Tozek (Second Prize)

Two winners: The Earl of Kent: Man in the Shadows by Susan Bianconi Constructive Deception in As You Like It by Katharine Eisaman

Voices of Secular Value: the Ghosts of Hamlet and Richard III, by Michael C. Berthold

Walking About the Orb Like the Sun: The Role of the Wise Fools in Twelfth Night and King Lear by Susan J. Bianconi

The Elements of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire in Antony and Cleopatra, by Charlotte Ram, April 15, 1980 (first prize) (Charlotte Ram pseud. For Leslie Camhi )

The Role of Women in Hamlet by Ruth Watson , Arts & Sciences '83

Readings of Shakespeare: Dissidence and the Merchant of Venice, by Nat Ives , May 1996

Winner Robert Alan Profusek '72 (pseudonym Francis Payne), "Image and Reality: An Analysis of the United States Decision-Making Process Which Led to the Initiation of the Program of Sustained Aerial Bombardment of North Vietnam, February 1965." (107 pp. photocopy)

Alison M. Dreizen , "Japanese-American Relations during the Nixon Administration". 110 pp. Mss.

Bradley Merrill Marten "A Divided Legacy" 72 pp. Mss.

Robert B. Bernstein '77, "The Collapse of the 1972 Soviet-American Trade Agreements"

The Forestry Idea, by John R. Curry

Tom Jones Investigates Prosperity, by N. Gardner Bump

Can Wood Substitutes Replace Our Daily Need for Wood?, by J. J. Wille

The Autobiography of a White Pine, by Harold Pitt Smith

Trade Extension in the Lumber Industry - Its Relation to the Promotion of Forestry Practice, by Charles E. McConnell

DIXIE: The Land of Promise in Forestry, by Harold Gridley Wilm

The Airplane, a New Tool in Forestry, by Darwin Miscall

Scourge of American Forests, by John H. Eisinger

A Federal Forestation Project for the Unemployed, by James D. Pond

The Forestry Amendment to the Lumber Code, by Michel Afanasiev

The Worth of the Civilian Conservation Corps, by John W. Humphreys

The Question of Federal Ownership of Timberlands, by George Parsons

Wood Needs No Defense, by Herbert J. Mols

Forest Planting - An Essential Part of our Conservation Program, by Ellis F. Wallihan

Foresty and Flood Control, by Ralph Resnick

America's Forests: Now and After the War, by Earl Lewis Stone, Jr.

Possibilities of Rubber Production in South America, by Gaston Vivas-Berthier

Forest Protection, by Ernestine Ann Rowlind

Conservation or National Decline: America's Alternative, by Emmanuel Pollack

This Concerns You, by Helen Ross

Our Natural Heritage, by Daniel Duberman

Land Use and Forestry in the Northeast, by Roland C. Clement

We Must Keep Our National Forests, by George Burrows

The Saving of Corkscrew Sanctuary, by Anne La Bastille

This is Your State Forest, by John H. Kaufmann

An Investigation of the Flow of Water in Wash Water Troughs for Rapid Sand Filters, by Frank Van Duzer Fields

Investigation of the Flow of Water Through Submerged Diverging Tubes, by John Howard Stalker and Joseph Albert Thomas

Browning as a Writer of Plays, by "John Dargan" ( J. Q. Adams, Jr. )

Robert Browning as a Portrayer of the Spirit of the Renaissance, by Albert Davis

Womanhood in Tennyson and in Browning, by Emma A. Miller

The Ring and the Book as an Illustration of the Growth of Our Knowledge of Character, by "Richard Belmar" ( G. W. Nasmyth )

The Treatment of Character in Browning's Dramas, by Marion Collins

Browning and Italy, by Charles A. Carroll

Browning's Treatment of External Nature, by Melvin G. Crowell

Browning's Treatment of Judaism, by Harry M. Blank

Browning's Conception of the Fine Arts, by Florence M. Carpenter

A Defense of Browning's Optimism, by Suh Hu [ Hu Shih ]

Knowledge and Love as Treated in Paracelsus and Luria, by Victor H. Davis

Browning's Ecclesiastics, by William E. Seely

A Study of the Rhymes of Robert Browning, by Samuel Wilson

Theories of Immortality in Browning's Poems, by Samuel Wilson

Browning's Historical Portraits in "Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day," by Leah L. Lowensohn

A Study of Browning's "Pauline," by Harold W. Blodgett

The Development of Character in Paracelsus, by Malcolm L. Wilder

Browning and Whitman, by Vivan Earl Simroll

Browning's Narrative Art, by Henry F. Cook

The Grotesque in Browning, by Mary Lynch Johnson

Browning's Portrait of Paracelsus, by William Benedict

Browning's Treatment of Romantic Love as a Motive, by Herbert Brodsky

Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, a Study in the Rhetoric of Poetry, by J. B. Emperor

The Jew in Browning's Poetry, by Florence M. Hoagland

Browning and Euripides, by Argus John Tresidder

"Strafford," One Hundred Years After: An Autopsy, by Christopher Morley, Jr.

Browning's Treatment of Evil, by Margaret A. Kirkwood

Mr. Browning in Browning's Poetry, by Ruth L. Bayless

Obscurity in the Poetry of Robert Browning, by Jan W. Dietrichson

The Theatre of Alfred de Musset, by "Alfred Page"

The Influence of Spain upon French Seventeenth Century Literature, by Arthur Gordon

Autobiographical Elements in Paul Verlaine's Poetry, by George Irving Dale

A Comparison of Racine's Phedre with Euripides' Hippolytus and Seneca's Phaedra, by Roger G. Manube

Pierre Bayle, Forerunner of the Philosophes, by Bleeker Marquette

The Cosmopolitanism of Mme. De Stael, by Grace Marcus

Memoires D'Outre Tombe, by Miss S. K. Toksvig

Du Bellay in Rome, by Charlotte Helen Pekary

Montaigne and Renan, by Leslie C. Schwartz

Voltaire's English Letters, by George William McDonald Robertson

The Drama of Rostand, by Leah L. Lowensohn

Pierre de Ronsard in 1924, by Miss Vera L. Peacock

Montaigne's Theories of Education in the American College, by H. M. Peavy

The Greek Tradition in the Work of Albert Samain, by Miss Anna Gasool

An Estimate of Musset's Lorenzaccio, by E. E. Pope (that's Miss)

Ideas of Houdar de la Motte on Poetry, by Herbert Brodsky

Julien Green, Novelist Psychiatric, by H. Weiss

Le Roman Contemporain, by Volkoff

The Poetry of Paul Verlaine, by Abraham Schultz

Madame Bovary, Soixante-Dix Ans Apres, by Perry Cornell Dechert

Andre Gide, by Hyman Yudewitz

What Did Voltaire Get From England?, by Nobuko Takagi

Emerson & Montaigne, by Keith W. Johnson

The Origin and Development of the Opera Comique in France, by Harold E. Johnson

Villon: The Fact and the Legend, Rose Ransom

The Origins of the Chansons de Geste, by Robert M. Hankin

A Study of the Life and Works of the Baron D'Holbach, by Joseph Sbunsky

The Origins of the Chansons de Geste, by Dorothy Socolow

Poe in France, by Harry G. Edwards

Andre Gide: Works and Main Ideas on the Background of his Life, by Jan W. Dietrichson

Origins of the Chansons de Geste, by George A. Hazen

The Influence of Rousseau's Childhood on His Educational Theories by Carol Bagger [Xanthippe OLeary]

Le Vie de la Cour vue par Mme. De Sevigne, by Mahdi S. Elmandjra

The Turbulent Life of the Abbe Prevost, by Clifford S. Leonard

"9 Poems" by John Latta '75 (pseudonym P.Q. Reegan)

Note: The Corson Browning Prize, founded in 1902 by Professor Hiram Corson, and the Morrison Poetry Prize, founded in 1909 by James T. Morrison of Ithaca and continued for many years by Professor Morris Bishop, were combined in 1966 into the Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize.

Two winners: Thomas Johnson : "Some Lines for a Cathedral Bell Past Midnight and Other Poems"; Ross Tharaud : "Meditation and Other Poems"

"The Quarry" and 5 other poems by Robert Dale Schultz , grad. student

Mark Anderson , co-winner

James B. Hathaway , co-winner

Alice Fulton , graduate, co-winner

"Lessing's Dramas" by Karen Elise Monrad

"Goethe's Rule of Life As It Appears In His Poems" by Miss M. E. Farr

"Der Junge Goethe, 1770-1775" by William Holderman (In German)

"Goethe, the Man as Revealed in his Letters" by L. Grossfeld

"Goethe's Humanism" by I. Awoki

Goethe's "Werther" as a record of Experience and as a Work of Art by Elfrieda E. Pope

Goethe, Poet of the Soul, by Harold G. Carlson

"The Personality of Goethe As Revealed in His Letters" by Harold D. Feuerstein

A Comparison of Goethe's Faust Part I with the Urfaust and the Fragment by, "Merlin"

"The Young Goethe - 1770-1775" by P. Nevin, pseud. Hyman Yudewitz

"Goethe's Rule of Life as it Appears in his Poems" by Miss Helen Bretstein ('36)

"Autobiography and Poetry in Werther" by A. Ames

"Goethe's Idea of Religious Tolerance As Compared With That of the Enlightenment" by Beatrice Gottlieb ('45)

"Goethe and Carlyle" by Pobeda MacLachlin

"Humor and Satire in Goethe's Faust" by Richard Hyde Kerr [NB: this topic was among those set in 1945 and 1954 as well as in 1958, and it is possible that Kerr submitted his essay in any one of these years--in the absence of evidence of when he studied here]

"Is There Justification for Goethe's title: Faust, eine Tragödie" by "Ricarda" (In German)

"Swine, Therefore, Shall Ye Become: A Discussion of the Circe Legend in Faust, Part I" by Basya-Marie Romanoff

"Form and Meaning in Goethe's 'Dauer im Wechsel'" by Timothy C. Plowman ('66)

"Tieck's Use of Lyric in Der schönen Magelone" by Walter L. Knorr (grad.)

" 'Siguen Auf Der Linde' (Parzival 249, 11 ff.) And the Turtle-Dove" by Arthur B. Groos, Jr. (Grad.)

Arnim's "Die Majoratsherren": Its Romantic Elements by Mary Ann Copeland (pseudonym Vitzli Putzli)

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg: an Interpretation by Paul David Hobbs (pseudonym Paul Grayson)

Franz Kafka: Ein Altes Blatt - Versuch einer Deutung by Anja Hugel , 18 pp. (In German)

"By Water and By Fire" Second Place (no first place awarded). 12 pp. by Barry Michael Laine ('72).

"Poet and Poetic Process in the Narrative Framework of C.F. Meyer's 'Die Hochzeit des Monchs'," by William D. Wilson .

"Kafka's Der Prozess: the Problem Of Interpretation" by David Vierling 20 pp. Photocopy.

First prize:"Der Eregire, Lantlose Tristan": The Development of the Hero in Gottfried's Tristan, by Michael W. Twomey , grad. student. 29 pp. photocopy

Second prize: "Adalbert Stifter: Die Formulierung und Realisierung siener Kunstauffassung in den Bunten Steinen" by Valerie Rynne , grad. student. 16 pp. Photocopy.

Third prize: "Formula, Style and Structure in the Nibelungenlied", written by Rudy Spraycar , grad. student. 21 pp. Photocopy.

"Sunrise and the Griffon: Wolfram's Dawn Song Sine klawen" by H. Peiromene ( Mary F. Wack )

"A Short Guided Tour Through Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of Art" by Ifsan Sorbutts ( Peter Simpson , grad student, May 2, 1980)

"Sprachlandschaft" by Daniel J. Kane , graduate student in Germanic studies. 20 pp. photocopy

"Eulogy of a Lost Cause: Heine's 'Ludwig Marcus' " by Catherine Creecy , graduate student in German Literature. 20 pp.

"Die Rose Schönheit Soll Nicht Sterben": Celan's Translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets by I. Zensen (Graduate) [ Claire Oshetsky , Dept. of Modern Languages & Linguistics]

"Zu: Irmtraud Morgners Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Speilfrau Laura: Mutproben und Ansatzpunkte zur Trobadora Beatriz nach spielerischen Zeugnissen ihrer Leserin Meta" von Meta Morphose ( Suzanne Rohr , graduate student)

Wîp and Grâl and the Bipartite Structure of Parzival's Book IV by Paul Warren ( Kevin Marti , graduate student)

Bildungsroman: An Unfulfilled Genre? ( Andrew Hewitt , Graduate) [A. Wright]

Thoughts on Kretzschmar, Beethoven, and Doctor Faustus ( Steven Bilecka )

Adorno's "The Aging of the New Music" as a Political Theory of Criticism, by Arthur C. T. Strum

Conflict, Collective Action and the Life Chances of Ethnic Organizations: German Newspapers in Chicago, 1846-1956, August Spies [ Elizabeth West ]

"Do wuohs in Niderlander eins edelen kuneges kint": Siegfried and Duby's Paradigm of the 12th Century Aristocratic Youth, David F. Johnson

"Wenn du geredet hattest, Desdemona": Die Roll von Milleilung und die Macht von Sprechen, Ariel O. Morgan ( Toni J. Querry )

Language and the Mechanics of Presence in Herder's Plastik, Robert Wallace ( John R. Crutchfield )

The 'New Ethic' and its Danger by Helen Stocker ( Tracie Matysik )

The Significance of Life: The Unity of Hegel's Dialectic of Self-Consciousness by John Namjun Kim

Good or Evil?: The Impact of Thought on Society as Interpreted from Hoffman's The Golden Pot and The Sandman, by Jessica Lammers

Mental Division Between Man and Insect, by Esther Livingstone

Of Death, Kitsch, and Melancholia: Aimee und Jaguar, by Anna Parkinson

Kant's Judgment of Music ( Contrary to All Experience), by Marianne Tettlebaum

The Intangible Effects of One's Faith, by Jamie Wainstock

Second prize, freshman/sophomore: An Autopsy of Memory: a Discussion of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum Extension to the Berlin Museum, by "Jonathan"

Second prize, freshman/sophomore: Verwirrungen, by Melissa Jones

Second prize, junior/senior: The Time and Place of Modernity, by Alice Carey

First prize, graduate: On German Musical Conversations: The Allgemeine musikalische Zietung and the Ideas of "True" String Quartets ca. 1800, by "P."

Second prize, graduate: Subjectivity in Sartre's Works and Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Patricia O'Leary

Family Disputes: Tensions in Hegel's Conception of the Family Ryan Plumley

A Summary Approach to Kafka's 'Das Urteil' Josh Dittrich

Vicissitudes of Choice Anstasia Pouchkareva

A Fairy Tale Come True Lindsay Wilczynski

Second place Freshmen/Sophomore: Melancholia and Self-Reflexive Realities in Goethe's "Faust" Trevor Miller

First place, graduate: Oswald Egger's Poetry of Birds, Beasts and the Art of Beholding or, Poetic Augury in the Utter Zoo of Semiotics Samuel Frederick

Second place, graduate: Konvention als Kritik? Mozarts 'klavier sonate mit begleitung einer Violin, KV 526 Wiebke Thormahlen

Second place, graduate: Bewegung' and Ruhrung': Musikspielende Androide und die Schnittpunkte ihrer kulturellen Bedeutungen im spaten 18. Jahrhundert in Deutschland Adelheid Voskuhl

First place, freshman/sophomore: Analyse von Richard Huelsenbecks Gedicht "Dada-Schalmei," auf Seite 128, Dada Total. Das Gedicht kann auch auf der letzten Seite gefunden werden. Gregoriy A. Dokshin

First place, junior/senior: Das Primat des Praktischen in Kants "Grundlegung" Joseph "Jed" Lewinsorn

Second place, graduate: Heteronomy and Autonomy: Communication Media in Fichte's Encounter with Mesmerism Sean Franzel

Second place, graduate: "And something evermore about to be . . .": The Proleptic Subject of the Sublime in the Late Writings of Immanual Kant Robert S. Lehman

Second place, sophomore: "The role of political criticism in Goethe's Egmont and Schiller's Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell" Myrtle McClintock [Daniela White]

First place, senior: "Vergleich und Analyse von der Kritik der Avantgarde": The Proleptic Subject of the Sublime in the Late Writings of Immanual Kant Maximillian Hugenpoet [Michael J. Lander]

Second place, senior: "Soames on Wittgenstein: Unpacking the Private Language Argument" [Wesley Mattingly]

First place, graduate: "The Reduction and the Ruin of the Human: Jean Amery, the Experience of Torture, and the Writing of Pain" Austerlitz [Melanie Steiner]

Second place, graduate: "Siegfried Kracauer and Bertolt Brecht: A Dialogue on the Author in the Age of Mass Media" [Erica Doerhoff]

First place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Analysis of Franz Kafka's 'A Fasting Artist,'" John Smith [Ismael Amaro]

Second place, Junior/Senior: "Goethe's Challenge," Friedrich Schiller [Somone Glanert]

Second place, Junior/Senior: "Preserving the Best of Faust: ergo scripendium est," A. Scott [Amanda Guise]

First place, Graduate: "Nach Selbstportraits von Käthe Kollwitz," Anja Brandt [Stephanie Gehring]

First place, Graduate: "Grounding Place: Temporal Plasticity in Hölderling's Nachgesänge and Der Winkel von Hardt," "Grad" [Alexis Briley]

First place, Graduate: "The Composer's Canvas: CPE Bach, Pictorialism, and German Enlightenment Aesthetics" Katherine H. Walker, "Grad"

First place, Graduate: "Aisthetische Literarizität - eine Provokation für die Literaturwissenschaft?", Adalbert Wurst "Grad" [Christian Jany]

Second place, Graduate: "Intervention of the Narrator in 'Sine Klâwen,'" Rubin Heritagio "Grad" [Paul Buchholz]

First place, Junior/Senior: "Die Familie als Erinnerung in 'Am Beispiel meines Bruders'" [Christopher Muenten]

Freshman/Sophomore: "Wie verstehen Faust und Mephistopheles ihre Partnerschaft?" Maren Nordmann [Mallory Matsumoto]

Freshman/Sophomore: "Reconsidering Cross-Species Communication: Kafka, Intramodal Analogy, and the Philosopher des Als Ob" X [Ian Wells]

Graduate: "Wie die Pfeiler gesprengter Brücken": Experience, Memory, and Writing in Ruth Klüger's weiter leben," Walt von der Vogelweide [Ari Linden]

Graduate: "Marx's Politics of Comedy" Rusty Shackleford [Paul Flaig]

Graduate: "How to Read: the perceptual demands of Lázló Moholu-Nagy's new vision and Berthold Brecht's Complex seeing" David Bowie [Katrina Nousek]

Freshman: Character and its Various Implementation in the Writings of Nietzsche" David Hillel [Daniel Kuhr]

Sophomore: "Die Vergleichsanalyse der Gedichten von Paul Celan: 'Zu beiden Handen' und 'Schneebett'" X [Katarzyna Pozniak]

Graduate: "The Organon of Freedom: Schelling's Task for Philosophy" [Klas Molde]

Graduate: "Realism as Fantasy - Performing Space with Stifter and Keller" Henryk Grzynszpan [Carl Gelderloos]

Undergraduate Junior: "Derrida und Gadamar: Verschiedene Analysen von Paul Celan" E. C., Junior [Elizabeth Cai]

Undergraduate Senior: "Die Suche nach Bedeutung in Celans Gedichten" Anonymous 1 [Anna Rady]

Graduate Student: "Toward a concept of historical truth content in literary texts: Rereading Adorno's 'Rede über Lyrik und Gesellschaft" Max Reiser [Johannes Wankhammer]

Third Year Graduate Student: "Uncanny Instruments: T. T. A. Hoffmann and the Musical Uncanny" Lilly Grundner [Amanda Saunders Lalonde]

First place, Graduate: "Herta Müller's Materialism and the Failure of a Realist Aesthetics of Catastrophe" [Matteo Calla]

First place, Junior/Senior: "Dealing with Kant Defensively" [Jason Yanover]

Second place, Junior/Senior: "O ewige Nacht! Wann wrist du schwinden? Searching for the Premier of Die Zauberflöte in Historical Obscurity" [Jason Boada]

First place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Die Rolle der Grund-und Hauptschule Bad Bentheim-Gildehaus beim Erhalt des Niederdeutschen in ihrer Region" [Henry Ekwaro-Osire]

Elements from the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, by "Bernard Claravallensis" ( James Edwin Creighton )

Comte and Spencer: A Study of the Social Organism, by Glenn R. Morrow

A Philosophical Consideration of the Theory of Relativity, by Harold R. Smart

Emile Boutroux, by Lucy Shepard Crawford

Hegel's Theory of Absolute Knowledge, by Anna Forbes Liddell

Logic and Realism in the Law: Mr. Justice Holmes, by Harvey C. Mansfield

A Study in Psychological Theory, by Carl M. White

The Unique and the Universal in the Experience of Beauty in Art, by Bertram Morris

An Introduction to the Timely and Synoptic Elements of Metaphysics, by "Anti-Scala Perfectionis" (H. A. Myers)

Kant's Deduction of the Categories, by Cedric Evans

Inference in Pragmatic Logic, by Milton H. Williams

On the Doctrine of Truth and Existence in Descartes, by Alan Gewirtz

Language and the Structure of Mathematics and Physical Fact, by Robert Eugene Marshak

Criticism and Comparison of the Empirical Methods of Dewey Alexander and Wittgenstein, by Stuart M. Brown

An Essay on Leibniz and the Identity of Indiscernibles, by Stuart M. Brown

The Purpose of the Parmenides, by Atwell R. Turquette

On Aristotle's Notion of Intuitive Knowledge, by John O'Connor

Reason, Impartiality and Philosophical Method, by Daniel Kading

Plato and the Open Society, by Marcus G. Singer

Sermon on the Self, by William H. Gass

Prichard, Green, and Moral Obligation, by Charles H. Monson, Jr.

Reason and Conduct in Kant, by I. Cant Badley

Some Platitudes Concerning Ethics, by I. Cant Badley

The Circle in Aristotle's Ethics, by Walter O. Pearson

C. I. Lewis' Analysis of Terms, by David Keyt

How is Language Possible, by Sydney Shoemaker

On the Rationality of Persuading, by John N. Garver

How do I Know that I Have a Headache?, by Sydney S. Shoemaker

Private Language, by John Newton Garver

Some Metaphysical Pictures, by Hugh S. Chandler

The Social Life of the Crow, by Miss Leonora B. Fletcher

The Oxford Movement, by E. J. Tucker [George H. Sabine]

The Recent Industrial Conflict in Colorado as Illustrative of Present-day Tendencies in the United States in the Relations of Labor and Capital, by W. W. Gail

The Problem of the Muscovite, by E. E. Hazard

Individualism and Present Tendencies in America, by W. A. Shea

The Painter and the Layman, by A. Layman Painter

Old Ideals and Selfish Ideals, by Miss Stella Heilbrunn

The Sophists, by Murray W. Bundy

A Sojourn in the Primeval, by Philohelos (Mr. Francis Harper )

The Immigrant and American Labor, by Epictetus (Mr. E. A. deLima )

Youth the Inquirer, by Albert William Meyer

The Dualism of the Vision of the Middle Ages and its Consummation in Dante, by Miss Ellen B. Armstrong

Children of Lillith, by Miss Signe K. Toksvig under the pseudonym of "C. E. Smith"

Virgil and the American School-boy, by Miss Lila V. Stevenson under the pseudonym of "R. S. Monroe"

Concerning Youth, by William E. Seely

Science, by Mr. William Schack, pseudonym of H. F. Wincon

Essay on Clio, by Ernest L. Hettich , pseudonym Thornbury

The Heritage of Revolution, by Barnett Nover , (Alan Tarvey)

The History of an Idea, by Barnet Nover

Fact and Sense of Fact, by John M. Maloney , pseudonym John Hancock

Virginia Tobacco, by Miss Thelma F. Brumfield , pseudonym W. K. Carr

Colors, by Miss Edith W. Parrott , pseudonym Denver Baird

Our Leaders of the Future, by James Arthur Humphrey, pen name for Putnam J. Jones

The Poet's Glass, by K. C. Walz , pseudonym Arthur A. Kingsley

The Alchemy of Art, by Hyman Yudewitz , pseudonym Guzano de Seda

Macaulay, by Francis D. Wormuth

Two English Views of the French Revolution: A Study in the Making of Historic Public Opinion, by Harold A. Lehrman , pseudonym Clinton

A Criticism of Tolstoy's Theory of Art, by George Burns ( George H. Weltner )

Guilford Prize not awarded

Didacticism in Lyric Poetry, by Irene Samuel

Specimens of the Prose of Engelsdrockh, by Argus John Tresidder

The Apprenticeship of Parliament in the Reign of Elizabeth, by Goldwin Smith , pseudonym Keith Winter

Sentence of Defeat: a Study of George Gissing, by Christopher Morley, Jr. , pseudonym Thomas More

Pascal: An Essay, by Boris I. Bittker

Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Howard R. Houston , pseudonym Felix Randall

The City that Grew from the Desert, by Paul Leighton

War Babies, by Howard Jay Samuely , pseudonym Lee Conrad

A. E. Housman, by John Detmold

In the Hills of Idaho, by Aaron Zucker , pseud. Alan Storm

Of Dust and Nothing More, by Anita E. W. Monsees, pseud. Caril R. Hewes

Carlyle's "Revolutions" Lectures, by Roderigo de Triana [ Robert Pearsall ]

In Quest of Myself, by "Searcher"

The Parliamentarianism of the Constitutional Democratic Party in the First State Duma, by William Slany

The Evolution of My Personal Philosophy, by I. Joel Abramson

English Prose Specimens, by Lawrence Lipking

Eliot's Criticism of Metaphysical Poetry, by Sister Thomas Marion

The Mythology of Self, by Sandra E. Mortola

Ernest Hemingway & The Spanish Earth, by Richard Freedman

Selections from Three Essays, by Robert Edward Scholes

The German Threat to the Concert of Europe, by Lindsley E. Webster

A Review of H. D. F. Kito's Greek Tragedy, by James French Forrest

The Burden of Aeneas: John Peale Bishop, by Andrew John Von Hendy

Engels' Conception of History, by Leonard Kimerman, pseud. Tim Kooper

Milton's "Lycidas" and Donne's "The Funerall," by Joreth Min Yeeshe

Dramatic Structure and Symbol in La Dolce Vita, by Hilary Thimmesh

"Heart of Darkness" and the Failure of the Imagination, by James L. Guetti, Jr.

A Comparison of the Fifth Acts of Othello and The Maid's Tragedy

A Short View of the Eighteenth-Century Syncretists, by Robert Folkenflik

Towards a Definition of the Dandy, by Stanley Corngold

The "Speculatiue and Offic'd Instrument": Reason and Love in Othello by Jared Curtis

Carlyle and the Epic, by Robert Folkenflik

W. B. Yeats and "The Shadowy Waters", by Schendley Carstairs ( Jerald L. Bullis )

Verbal Irony in Literature: A Psychoanalytic Investigation ( Frank Stringfellow )

Minor Mundus: The Figurative Use of the Body in Pearl ( Kevin Marti ) ["Patrick A. Gesis" pseudonym]

This Is What Happened, by Charles B. Moss

Subway Face by "Seymour Abbott Gross" ( Lawrence Abbott )

Dollar Deliriums, by Avery B. Cohan (2nd prize)

I Would Found A University, by Violet J. Brown

Nearer My God to Thee, by Robert M. Gorrell

Life of John Doe, by Seymour B. Berkowitz

Barge Baby, by Charles Brunelle

Farmers' Holiday, by Boris I. Bitther

And the Pursuit of Happiness, by Harold E. Johnson

Intermission, by Harold E. Johnson

Virgil, by Alexander Zeeve

Apartment 3D, by Edward L. Kamarck

Chenango Crone, by Edward L. Kamarck

Domestic Relations, by Philip Mandel

Fork in the Road, by Ann Nash

A Fugue Bacchanal, by Frederick M. Shelley

The Ballad of Claudius Smith, by Irving R. Merrill

The Melting Pot and the Woman in Bed, by Frederick Shelley III

American Pieta, by Albert N. Perretta

Superman's Wife, by Jacob Regal

Fair Day Thursday, and Private Performance, by Patricia Colbert

Retreat, by Walter Scheinman

Ten Cents' Worth of God-Help-Us, by Katherine Thompson

Oblivion Is Not Here, by Margaret M. Taylor

Postwar Planning, by James Breckenridge

Mea Culpa, by Walter Scheinman

And the Pursuit of Happiness, by William Work

Five Characters in Search of Saroyan, by Roy Friedlander

Alias Edward H. Rullof, by William Work

Up Sword, by Roy Friedlander

The Reprieve, by Roy Friedlander

Tomorrow Without Leave, by Walter Scheinman

While the Moon Grows Cold, by Walter Scheinman

He-Keeps-Them-Awake, by David Thompson

Spoil, by Walter Scheinman

Adirondack Mile, The Late Adam Fry, by Frank C. Kallen

A Man's Duty, by A. G. Dower

The False Teeth, by S. B. Tartaro

The Muskrat Ramble, by Carl Caruso

Confessional, by Donald Brederman

The Man on the Bar Stool, by Alex Panas

The Barrister's Brownstone, by Jane Plunkett

A Death in the Family, by Bruce Bloom

Moon Hound, by Gordon Roston

Give to Me a Golden Star, by Robert Merritt

"Liberté, Egalité, Sororité," by Harriet Johnson ('68), 1941- . 60 pp. Bound multilith copy.

"The Role of Upstate New York in the Early Women's Rights Struggle" by Michael K. H. Platzer ('67), 19 - . 33 pp. Orig. typescript.

"The Women's Rights Movement in the United States," by Barbara Badian ('73), 1951- . 7 pp. typescript. Miss Badian used assumed name "Meryll" on prize.

"The Legal Status of Women in 18th Century America" by Marylynn Salmon

"The Roots of Liberal Feminism: A Critical Study of John Stuart Mill's 'The Subjection of Women'" by Jane Smith (pen name for Catherine Griffeath )

"Organized Female Charity: 1797 to 1814" by Catherine Streitwieser

The Relation of the Socialistic Movement to Human Progress, by Carrie Hartman

A Factor in Civilization, by Andrew McKay

The Decline in the Use of Torture in Criminal Procedure, by Miss H. N. Bircholdt

Modernism and Progress, by J.R. Knipfing

The American Immigrant - a Force in Modern Progress, by Chalmers

The Sectaries in Nuremberg: An Episode in the History of Religious Liberty, by Austin Patterson Evans

Human Perfectibility and the Revolutionary Epoch, by Paul B. Schumm

The Rise of the Protestants of France to Civil and Religious Freedom, by Hugh MacKenzie

The Development of Opposition to American Slavery and Disunion in England, by Louis Gottschalk

An Outline of the Development of Cabinet-Party Government in England, by William Cranborne , pseud.

The Relation of the Privy Council and Parliament from the Accession of Elizabeth to the Death of James I, by David Willson

The Progress of International Arbitration, by David Greenel

China and the West, by Pearl S. Buck

A Study in the Rise of Opposition in the House of Commons, by Edmund Abingdon

Changing India, by Daniel G. Woodard

The History of English Thought, a Sketch, by Francis Wormuth

The Edict of 1787: an Episode in the History of Toleration in France, by John Stewart

The Growth of the Nation Now Called Bolivia, by William Urbans

Progress and Natural Justice in Myth and Logical System, by Henry A. Myers

The Beginnings of Learned Journalism, 1665-1730, by Sherman Barnes

The French Idea of American Independence, by Robert Palmer

Manfred of Sicily, by William Bark

The Treaty of Washington, 1871, by Goldwin Smith

The Sailors in the Roman Imperial Navy, by Chester Starr, Jr.

Comment on Public Affairs in the Works of Langland and Gower, by Arthur Ferguson

Evolutionary Ethics in George Eliot and Samuel Butler, by Claude Bissell

Montesquieu's Interpretation of the English Constituition, by John Stapleton

An Essay in the History of Natural Religion, by Stuart Brown, Jr.

The Population Growth and Land Pattern of Eastern N.Y., 1790-1808, by David Ellis

Fifty Years of Discrimination Against Citizen and Alien Japanese in the United States, by Howard Samuely

The Impact of Greek Rhetorical Theory on Rome: 146-55 B.C., by Helen North

Petrarch on the Origin and Definition of Poetry, by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Agnostic Dilemma, by John Palmer

Bernard De Fontenelle: The Idea of Science in Eighteenth Century France, by L eonard Marsak

Parmenides and Melissos, by Dorothy Perry

Undergraduate award: Elizabeth K. Hook , "Riots in Axholme: 1626-1695."

Graduate award: Norman D. Roth ; "The Development and Nature of Hebrew Secular Poetry in Muslim Spain (10th-12th Centuries)."

"Perspectives on Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey in the English Renaissance" by Frank V. Cespedes

"An Analysis of Thomas Mann's Bekenntnisse Des Hochstaplers Felix Krull" by Daniel Sebastian Fredrich

"The Transformation in Warfare During the Years 200-1000" by John D. Williams

"Reluctant Royalists: Oxford Citizens and the English Civil War In Historical Context" by Cathy Herbert

"Letters from the Diaspora" by Alexander Learned Singer , pseud. Hasdai ibn Shaprut

"'Hempire': Patriotism, Empire, and the British Working Class circa 1902," Gary M. Sernovitz

Helen of Heaven and Helen of Earth, by Clarence Earl Simonson

A Mood, by Morris G. Bishop

A Captive, and A Winter Talk, by Paul B. Schumm

Sonnet, by Archibald Oboler

The Baron's Daughter, by J. G. Schurman, Jr.

The Comet, The Beah-comber, Brushwood Fires, Pheidippides, Disillusionment, The Weed, by Samuel Wilson

1917, Peace, War, April 1917, "I went today", Wind! I am strong", "I am earth-bound", "Give not to me", "It was the silent, holy night", "The old wives rise", "I know a house", by Miss Edith Horton

To a Dreamer, The Night-Shift, Coeur du Printemps, Night, The Alchemist, by DeElbert Keenan

The Singer, Heart's Desire, Moods, Lullaby, The Dance of Death, by Frederick H. Lape

Cathedrals of Old France, The Firefly, Villanelle, Silken Sails of Mystery, by L. E. Kittredge

Poems submitted by Dale Raymond Mitchell

Poems submitted by Robert Collyer Washburn

Poems submitted by Mary G. Willcox

Poems submitted by Helen Martha Peavy and James Hutton

Poems submitted by Edith Horton

Poems submitted by Elizabeth Rauschenbusch

Poems submitted by Hyman Yusewitz

Poems submitted by William Bradford Willcox

Poems submitted by Miss Kimi Gengo

Poems submitted by James B. Gitlitz

Poems submitted by Miss Kimi Gengo

Poems submitted by James B. Gitlitz

Poems submitted by Julia Eaton

Poems submitted by Muriel F. Hochdorf

Poems submitted by W. H. Sternberg

Poems submitted by Robert P. Darlington , George Eiten , Lucille V. Oaklander

Poems submitted by Robert Wheller and M. Irving Clifford

Poems submitted by Susan E. Goodman

Fruit from Every Tree, by Sandra Montola

Poems submitted by Dorothy Gilbert

Poems submitted by Roger Harry Fogelman

Free Government by Harry Z. Harris

Government and Administration, by Seth Victorius Elting

The Reform Movement in American Politics, by W. D. Smith

China and a Free Government, by Che Kwei Chen

Municipal Government in the Hands of the People, by Lawrence B. June

Immigration Regulation and the Principles of Free Government, by H. Solovay

The Jury and Free Government, by Harold D. Feuerstein

The Basis of Obedience, by W. H. Sternberg

Constitutional Theory of Sir Edward Coke, by Francis D. Wormuth

America, Democracy, and 1941, by Bruce Johnston

The Principles of Free Government, by Harry Jindwich Benda

Alien and Sedition Acts, 1957, by Stephen Alan Schuker

Modern Art and Peruvian Pottery: A Comparison and Discussion by Barbara Loebenstein

[all known competitors] (whole program is usually included; listed below are the indicated winners)

Burke and Webster as Orators

Circumstances in the State of Society which Distinguish the Modern from the Ancient Orator

The Medieval and Modern Ideal

Public Opinion, the Standard of Criminal Punishment, by "Bishop Butler"

National Unity as a Tendency of the Age, by "Chie"

National Constitutions, a Growth and Development, by anon.

The Religion of Thomas Paine, by Arthur L. Andrews

A Eulogy on John Bright, by E. I. White

Lynch Law and Civilization, by Herbert L. Fordham

Education and Ideal Citizenship, by George Dyer

Truth and Dogma: The Irrepressible Conflict in Massachusets, by Charles Rammelkamp

The Practical Age, by Daniel Wells

The South and the Negro, by Charles Mayer

The Attainable Ideal in Politics, by Herbert Lee

The New Social Consciousness, by Eugene T. Lies

Judaism - Its Mission in the Twentieth Century, by Sidney S. Lowenthal

Liberty or Law: A Plea for Private Enterprise, by Michael Ford

Southward, Ho!, by Alfred Huger

The Debt of Humanity to the Engineer, by Harry F. Porter

The Lawyer: Money Maker or Peace-Maker?, by G. G. Bogert

The Power of the Individual, by N. D. Becker

William Winthrop Taylor

Elizabeth Ellsworth Cook

The Price of Democracy, by A. Levine

The World and the College, by Hymen Barr

George Morris Wolfson

Alan Husted Colcord

Leslie Herbert Gloser

Harold Riegelman

Duane Spencer Hatch

Morris Julius Escoll

Ying Ching Yang

The Lansing-Ishii Agreement, by Chen Ku

Walter Measday, Jr.

Universal Military Service, by W. H. Farnham

Irma Greenwalt

Amnesty for Political Prisoners, by Madeline Grosshandler

The Significance of Unemployment, by Esther Antell

Louis Pasteur, by Sidney Goldstein

Cultural Barrenness of American Life, by Katz

The Scholar in the State, by M. H. Friedman

An American Statesman, by Donald C. Bryant

Patriotism - Sentiment of Sentimentality, by Robert D. Jones

Shall We Let Man Live?, by Ida Blinkoff

Armenia's Plea for Justice, by A. L. Abkarian

Latin-America and Dollar Diplomacy, by Gerardo Auguste

No Compromise With War, by Albert E. Arent

A Requiem for the Civil Jury, by David Altman

Peace Through Revolution, by Fred Berkowitz

A New Future, by S. H. Bolz

Christianity: A Philosophy of Action, by Fellows

New Patriotism, by Clarke T. Case

A Positive Peace Policy, by Leon Marsh

Need We Fear for Democracy?, by Robert Hogsett, Jr.

Light in the Shadows, by Herbert Abrams

no winner indicated

no winner indicated

"Lincoln and Davis," by H. S. Thayer , pseudonym "Sergius"

"The Crisis of 1896, The Place of 'l'experience radicale' in French History" by Leslie Decker (L. E. Fraternite)

"Dean Atcheson and the Ideological Origins of the Cold War" by George S. Lustig

"Herman Melville's Typee: Preconception and Perception in Polynesia" by John Samson

"The Exile of the Dead: New York's 1823 Interment Law. A Study in Cultural Conflict" by Eric Himmel

"Bring us Together: Congressional Reaction to the Invasion of Cambodia, 1970" by Marie Gottschalk

"Seabrook Action Drama: a Reading of an Anti-Nuclear Event" by William T. Vollmann , Arts '81

John J. Whalen (A & S; '80)

Jon Tabakin (Honorable mention: Benjamin A. Liemer )

Gail Tischkoff , David Laws , Becky Myers

Howard S. L. Coale

Timothy W. Muskat , Arts '82

Gerard Nadeau

Myra Koonce

Thomas Hawks

Matthew Zarnowiecki

Suzanne Eck , "The Isle of Avalon"

Alan G. Dexter , no title (English)

Jennifer Park , "Taylor's Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God" (Philosophy)

Susan Conrad , "Dylan Thomas' 'Fern Hill' " (English)

Lynne Chase , "A Question of Understanding" (English)

John Golder , "Troilus and Cressida: Contradictions of Love, War, and Moral Choice"

Kenneth Locke , "The Western Quest: A Summing Up?" (Government 100.1)

Geoffrey Potter , "Wealth Tradition Family"

Cynthia Cupples , "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Magic Barrel"

Michele Marie Stern , "Faulkner's Use of Verb Tense in As I Lay Dying" (English 270)

Leigh Polk , "Artistic Indulgence" (English 108)

Heidi Duitsman "The Barber of St. Petersburg" (Russian Literature 104)

Mirian Reshotko , Gatsby: Simplicity Fails, (English 270.2) (2 copies)

Roger Giner-Sorolla, "Mr. T" (Fr. Lit. 109)

Nick Paige , "Techniques of 'Enduring Suspense'" (English 108)

Ellen McGill , "The Bones of Djalming: Social Nasties and Political Questions" (Biology and Society 104)

Eric Franz , "The English Game Laws" (Law Liberty and Crime in England, 1700-1850) [E. A. Reynolds]

Elizabeth Briskin , "The Character of Joab"

Educational Reform and Peace by John D. Tower , Government 181

If Humanity Can be Educated for Peace by Amy Kenton , Introduction to International Relations

The Modern State: A View on War and the Social Contract by Alexander Jonas , Government 383

Prisoner's Dilemma and The Analysis of International Conflict by Ngoh Hock-Soon , Government 477

Morality in the Nuclear Age: Past, Present and Future by Ethan Oelman , Government 384

The West German Peace Movement: Cyclical or Unique? by Aaron Karnell , Government 395

"Strategies for revision in the novels of Margaret Drabble" (75 pp. Typescript) [1st prize], by Nancy GLazener

"Thomas Pynchon And The Language of Science" (28 pp. Typescript) [2nd prize], by Joseph Tabbi

Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software: A Discussion of How Legal Cases Have been Decided That Turn on Technical Points in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty and A Proposed Better Way for the Legal System to Provide This Needed Protection ( Edward N. Gewirtz )

The International Transport of Hazardous Wastes ( Sharon B. Skolnik )