Prize essay collection, 1872-2017.
Collection Number: 7-9-1317

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Prize essay collection, 1872-2017.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7-9-1317
Abstract:
Prize-winning student essays from Cornell University contests in creative writing, poetry, social sciences, and humanities. Includes an essay on China by Pearl S. Buck.
Creator:
Cornell University
Quanitities:
8.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English, and German

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Prize-winning student essays from Cornell University contests in creative writing, poetry, social sciences, and humanities. Includes an essay on China by Pearl S. Buck.
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.
Series I. Arthur Lynn Andrews '93 Award for Creative Writing

Box 1
Series II. Barnes Shakespeare Prize

Boxes 2-3
Series III. Lt. David Chrystall Prize [1972]

Box 4
Series IV. Charles Lathrop Pack Foundation Forestry Prize

Box 5
Series V. Charles Lee Crandall Prize

Box 6
Series VI. Corson Browning Prize

Boxes 6-7
Series VII. Corson French Prize

Boxes 8-9
Series VIII. Corson Morrison Prize

Box 9
Series IX. Corson Bishop Poetry Prize

Box 9
Series X. Goethe Prize Essays

Boxes 9a, 32, 34
Series XI. Graduate Prize in Philosophy

Boxes 10-11
Series XII. The Guilford Prize

Boxes 12-14, 30
Series XIII. The Heermans Prize

Boxes 14-16
Series XIV. Mary B. Knoblaugh Prize

Box 16
Series XV. The Messenger Prize

Boxes 16-21
Series XVI Messenger-Chalmers Prize

Box 21
Series XVII. The Morrison Prize Poems

Box 22
Series XVIII. The Sherman Bennett Prize

Box 23
Series XIX. Sampson Fine Arts Competition

Item missing
Series XX. The Woodford Prize

Boxes 23-27
Series XXI. Unknown Prize

Box 27
Series XXII. Moses Coit Tyler Prize

Box 28
Series XXIII. Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize

Box 29
Series XXIV. Elmer Markham Johnson Prize

Box 29
Series XXV. Kasdan-Montessori Peace Prize

Boxes 29, 33
Series XXVI. Class of 1916 Prize

Box 31
Series XXVII. Douglas E. Whitney Prize

Box 28

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Cornell University Prize Essay Collection, #7-9-1317. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973.
Cornell University
Places:
China -- Description and travel.
Subjects:
College Students -- Poetry.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Literary prizes.
American essays.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Arthur Lynn Andrews Class of 1893 Award for Creative Writing
Box 1
First Place, Louis Nayman (pseudonym P.F. Catcher), "A Failed Poet" (30 pp. Typescript and photocopies of other 3 stories submitted).
1972
Box 1
Second Place, William Howard Mal (pseudonym Dee Speck), "The travelling Agricultural Implement Salesman and the Farmer's Daughter" (13 pp. Typescript).
1972
Box 1
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"
1975
Box 1
First Place, Scott Ballotin (Arts '78) "Mrs. Levitan" (22 pp. Typescript)
1977
Box 1
First Place, Raphael Seligman (Arts '82) "See you later, Aleator" (28 pp. Typescript)
1981
Series II. The Barnes Shakespeare Prize
Box 2
The Elizabethan Masque and the Masque Character of Shakespeare's Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Walter C. Bronson
1890
Box 2
Shakespeare's Nature Lines, by Oscar Diedrich von Engeln
1905
Box 2
The Character of Ophelia, by John Bail
1906
Box 2
Love Seen Through the Comic and the Tragic Spirit, as Illustrated by Benedick and Beatrice, Romeo and Juliet, by Alice W. Benham
1907
Box 2
Shakespeare's Delineation of Insanity in King Lear, by H.M. Barr
1908
Box 2
The Treatment and Significance of Shakespeare's Tragedy of Passion, by William Shea
1909
Box 2
The Winter's Tale and Pandosto, How Shakespeare has Manipulated His Raw Material in Dramatizing the Story, by Charles Antoninus Carroll
1910
Box 2
Shakespeare's Fools and Clowns, by Fred S. Kleinman
1911
Box 2
Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II - A Comparison, by Florence M. Carpenter
1912
Box 2
Shakespeare's Hamlet - A Comparison with Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, by Miss Georgina Melville
1913a
Box 2
A Sojourn in the Primeval, by Mr. Harper - illustrative matter
1913b
Box 2
The Infinite Variety of Anthony and Cleopatra, by Colin A. H. Michael
1914
Box 2
Certain Excellences in Othello, by John W. Jones
1915
Box 2
The Macbeth of Shakespeare and the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, by Harry Caplan
1916
Box 2
A Criticism of "Coriolanus," by Miss Eva M. Seeger
1918
Box 2
The Last of the Ptolemies, by Rose S. Malmud
1920
Box 2
The Mental Response to Shakespeare, by Laura Keane Zametkin
1921
Box 2
Shakespeare, the Singer, by Desmond S. Powell
1922
Box 2
Why consider Shakespeare?, by H. F. Cook
1924
Box 2
The Supernatural Elements in The Tempest
1925
Box 2
Shakespeare's Interpretation of Justice, by Margaret L. Plunkett
1926
Box 2
The Women of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, by Frances M. Shattuck
1927
Box 2
The Infinite Variety of Cleopatra, by William Maslow
1929
Box 2
The Plutarchan Influence in Coriolanus, by George Simpson
1930
Box 2
Richard of Gloucester in History and in Shakespearean Drama, by Harold A. Lehrman
1931
Box 2
King Richard II, by Harold A. Segall
1938
Box 3
Marcus Brutus, by Philip Cohen
1939
Box 3
Shakespeare and the Aristotelian Tradition by John S. Lawrence
1941
Box 3
Poetic Imagery in Richard II, by John H. Detmold
1942
Box 3
Hamlet, a Revenge Tragedy, by Carla Small
1943
Box 3
The Relation of Real Life and Fantasy in Shakespeare's Comedies, by Robert S. Bernen
1949
Box 3
Some Remarks on King Lear, by Joanna Ruth Russ
1957
Box 3
Plot Structure in "Romeo and Juliet" by Sharon Dee Solwitz
1968
Box 3
On Pity in Hamlet, by David Ratner
n.d.
Box 3
Disguise, Reason, and Truth in King Lear by Mel Behr ( Martha E. Linke )
1971
Box 3
The Role of Edmund in "King Lear," by Jeremy Rabkin (First Prize)
1972
Box 3
Iago's Method: What Manner Poison for Othello's Ear, by L.M. Tozek (Second Prize)
1972
Box 3
Two winners: The Earl of Kent: Man in the Shadows by Susan Bianconi ‡Constructive Deception in As You Like It by Katharine Eisaman
1975
Box 3
Voices of Secular Value: the Ghosts of Hamlet and Richard III, by Michael C. Berthold
1977
Box 3
Walking About the Orb Like the Sun: The Role of the Wise Fools in Twelfth Night and King Lear by Susan J. Bianconi
1978
Box 3
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 )
1980
Box 3
The Role of Women in Hamlet by Ruth Watson , Arts & Sciences '83
1982
Box 3
Readings of Shakespeare: Dissidence and the Merchant of Venice, by Nat Ives , May 1996
1996
Series III. L. David Chrystall Prize
Box 4
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)
1972
Box 4
Alison M. Dreizen , "Japanese-American Relations during the Nixon Administration". 110 pp. Mss.
1974
Box 4
Bradley Merrill Marten "A Divided Legacy" 72 pp. Mss.
1975
Box 4
Robert B. Bernstein '77, "The Collapse of the 1972 Soviet-American Trade Agreements"
1977
Series IV. The Charles Lathrop Pack Foundation Forestry Prize
Box 5
The Forestry Idea, by John R. Curry
1924
Box 5
Tom Jones Investigates Prosperity, by N. Gardner Bump
1925
Box 5
Can Wood Substitutes Replace Our Daily Need for Wood?, by J. J. Wille
1926
Box 5
The Autobiography of a White Pine, by Harold Pitt Smith
1927
Box 5
Trade Extension in the Lumber Industry - Its Relation to the Promotion of Forestry Practice, by Charles E. McConnell
1929
Box 5
DIXIE: The Land of Promise in Forestry, by Harold Gridley Wilm
1930
Box 5
The Airplane, a New Tool in Forestry, by Darwin Miscall
1931
Box 5
Scourge of American Forests, by John H. Eisinger
1932
Box 5
A Federal Forestation Project for the Unemployed, by James D. Pond
1933
Box 5
The Forestry Amendment to the Lumber Code, by Michel Afanasiev
1934
Box 5
The Worth of the Civilian Conservation Corps, by John W. Humphreys
1935
Box 5
The Question of Federal Ownership of Timberlands, by George Parsons
1936
Box 5
Wood Needs No Defense, by Herbert J. Mols
1937
Box 5
Forest Planting - An Essential Part of our Conservation Program, by Ellis F. Wallihan
1938
Box 5
Foresty and Flood Control, by Ralph Resnick
1940
Box 5
America's Forests: Now and After the War, by Earl Lewis Stone, Jr.
1942a
Box 5
Possibilities of Rubber Production in South America, by Gaston Vivas-Berthier
1942b
Box 5
Forest Protection, by Ernestine Ann Rowlind
1944
Box 5
Conservation or National Decline: America's Alternative, by Emmanuel Pollack
1946
Box 5
This Concerns You, by Helen Ross
1947
Box 5
Our Natural Heritage, by Daniel Duberman
1948
Box 5
Land Use and Forestry in the Northeast, by Roland C. Clement
1950
Box 5
We Must Keep Our National Forests, by George Burrows
1953
Box 5
The Saving of Corkscrew Sanctuary, by Anne La Bastille
1955
Box 5
This is Your State Forest, by John H. Kaufmann
1956
Series V. The Charles Lee Crandall Prize
Box 6
An Investigation of the Flow of Water in Wash Water Troughs for Rapid Sand Filters, by Frank Van Duzer Fields
1918
Box 6
Investigation of the Flow of Water Through Submerged Diverging Tubes, by John Howard Stalker and Joseph Albert Thomas
1920
Series VI. The Corson Browning Prize
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.
Box 6
Browning as a Writer of Plays, by "John Dargan" ( J. Q. Adams, Jr. )
1904
Box 6
Robert Browning as a Portrayer of the Spirit of the Renaissance, by Albert Davis
1905
Box 6
Womanhood in Tennyson and in Browning, by Emma A. Miller
1907
Box 6
The Ring and the Book as an Illustration of the Growth of Our Knowledge of Character, by "Richard Belmar" ( G. W. Nasmyth )
1908
Box 6
The Treatment of Character in Browning's Dramas, by Marion Collins
1909
Box 6
Browning and Italy, by Charles A. Carroll
1910
Box 6
Browning's Treatment of External Nature, by Melvin G. Crowell
1911
Box 6
Browning's Treatment of Judaism, by Harry M. Blank
1912
Box 6
Browning's Conception of the Fine Arts, by Florence M. Carpenter
1913
Box 6
A Defense of Browning's Optimism, by Suh Hu [ Hu Shih ]
1914
Box 6
Knowledge and Love as Treated in Paracelsus and Luria, by Victor H. Davis
1915
Box 6
Browning's Ecclesiastics, by William E. Seely
1916a
Box 6
A Study of the Rhymes of Robert Browning, by Samuel Wilson
1916b
Box 6
Theories of Immortality in Browning's Poems, by Samuel Wilson
1917
Box 6
Browning's Historical Portraits in "Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day," by Leah L. Lowensohn
1920
Box 6
A Study of Browning's "Pauline," by Harold W. Blodgett
1921
Box 6
The Development of Character in Paracelsus, by Malcolm L. Wilder
1923
Box 6
Browning and Whitman, by Vivan Earl Simroll
1924
Box 7
Browning's Narrative Art, by Henry F. Cook
1925
Box 7
The Grotesque in Browning, by Mary Lynch Johnson
1926
Box 7
Browning's Portrait of Paracelsus, by William Benedict
1929
Box 7
Browning's Treatment of Romantic Love as a Motive, by Herbert Brodsky
1930
Box 7
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, a Study in the Rhetoric of Poetry, by J. B. Emperor
1932
Box 7
The Jew in Browning's Poetry, by Florence M. Hoagland
1933
Box 7
Browning and Euripides, by Argus John Tresidder
1934
Box 7
"Strafford," One Hundred Years After: An Autopsy, by Christopher Morley, Jr.
1937
Box 7
Browning's Treatment of Evil, by Margaret A. Kirkwood
1943
Box 7
Mr. Browning in Browning's Poetry, by Ruth L. Bayless
1945
Box 7
Obscurity in the Poetry of Robert Browning, by Jan W. Dietrichson
1949
Box 7
The Theatre of Alfred de Musset, by "Alfred Page"
1951
Series VII. The Corson French Prize
Box 8
The Influence of Spain upon French Seventeenth Century Literature, by Arthur Gordon
1908
Box 8
Autobiographical Elements in Paul Verlaine's Poetry, by George Irving Dale
1909
Box 8
A Comparison of Racine's Phedre with Euripides' Hippolytus and Seneca's Phaedra, by Roger G. Manube
1911
Box 8
Pierre Bayle, Forerunner of the Philosophes, by Bleeker Marquette
1912
Box 8
The Cosmopolitanism of Mme. De Stael, by Grace Marcus
1914
Box 8
Memoires D'Outre Tombe, by Miss S. K. Toksvig
1915
Box 8
Du Bellay in Rome, by Charlotte Helen Pekary
1916
Box 8
Montaigne and Renan, by Leslie C. Schwartz
1917
Box 8
Voltaire's English Letters, by George William McDonald Robertson
1918
Box 8
The Drama of Rostand, by Leah L. Lowensohn
1919
Box 8
Pierre de Ronsard in 1924, by Miss Vera L. Peacock
1924
Box 8
Montaigne's Theories of Education in the American College, by H. M. Peavy
1925
Box 8
The Greek Tradition in the Work of Albert Samain, by Miss Anna Gasool
1927
Box 8
An Estimate of Musset's Lorenzaccio, by E. E. Pope (that's Miss)
1928
Box 8
Ideas of Houdar de la Motte on Poetry, by Herbert Brodsky
1929a
Box 8
Julien Green, Novelist Psychiatric, by H. Weiss
1929b
Box 8
Le Roman Contemporain, by Volkoff
1930
Box 8
The Poetry of Paul Verlaine, by Abraham Schultz
1931a
Box 8
Madame Bovary, Soixante-Dix Ans Apres, by Perry Cornell Dechert
1931b
Box 8
Andre Gide, by Hyman Yudewitz
1932
Box 8
What Did Voltaire Get From England?, by Nobuko Takagi
1933
Box 8
Emerson & Montaigne, by Keith W. Johnson
1934
Box 8
The Origin and Development of the Opera Comique in France, by Harold E. Johnson
1937
Box 8
Villon: The Fact and the Legend, Rose Ransom
1938
Box 9
The Origins of the Chansons de Geste, by Robert M. Hankin
1941
Box 9
A Study of the Life and Works of the Baron D'Holbach, by Joseph Sbunsky
1942
Box 9
The Origins of the Chansons de Geste, by Dorothy Socolow
1944
Box 9
Poe in France, by Harry G. Edwards
1947
Box 9
Andre Gide: Works and Main Ideas on the Background of his Life, by Jan W. Dietrichson
1948
Box 9
Origins of the Chansons de Geste, by George A. Hazen
1949
Box 9
The Influence of Rousseau's Childhood on His Educational Theories by Carol Bagger [Xanthippe OLeary]
1949
Box 9
Le Vie de la Cour vue par Mme. De Sevigne, by Mahdi S. Elmandjra
1954
Box 9
The Turbulent Life of the Abbe Prevost, by Clifford S. Leonard
1956
Series VIII. Corson-Morrison Poetry Prize
Box 9
"9 Poems" by John Latta '75 (pseudonym P.Q. Reegan)
1972
Series IX. Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize (name change 1975)
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.
Box 9
Two winners: Thomas Johnson : "Some Lines for a Cathedral Bell Past Midnight and Other Poems"; Ross Tharaud : "Meditation and Other Poems"
1975
Box 9
"The Quarry" and 5 other poems by Robert Dale Schultz , grad. student
1976
Box 9
Mark Anderson , co-winner
1978
Box 9
James B. Hathaway , co-winner
1978
Box 9
Alice Fulton , graduate, co-winner
1981
Series X. Goethe Prize Essays
Box 9a
"Lessing's Dramas" by Karen Elise Monrad
1906
Box 9a
"Goethe's Rule of Life As It Appears In His Poems" by Miss M. E. Farr
1920
Box 9a
"Der Junge Goethe, 1770-1775" by William Holderman (In German)
1921
Box 9a
"Goethe, the Man as Revealed in his Letters" by L. Grossfeld
1922
Box 9a
"Goethe's Humanism" by I. Awoki
1925
Box 9a
Goethe's "Werther" as a record of Experience and as a Work of Art by Elfrieda E. Pope
1927
Box 9a
Goethe, Poet of the Soul, by Harold G. Carlson
1928
Box 9a
"The Personality of Goethe As Revealed in His Letters" by Harold D. Feuerstein
1929
Box 9a
A Comparison of Goethe's Faust Part I with the Urfaust and the Fragment by, "Merlin"
1931
Box 9a
"The Young Goethe - 1770-1775" by P. Nevin, pseud. Hyman Yudewitz
1932
Box 9a
"Goethe's Rule of Life as it Appears in his Poems" by Miss Helen Bretstein ('36)
1936
Box 9a
"Autobiography and Poetry in Werther" by A. Ames
1941
Box 9a
"Goethe's Idea of Religious Tolerance As Compared With That of the Enlightenment" by Beatrice Gottlieb ('45)
1944
Box 9a
"Goethe and Carlyle" by Pobeda MacLachlin
1954
Box 9a
"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]
1958
Box 9a
"Is There Justification for Goethe's title: Faust, eine Tragödie" by "Ricarda" (In German)
1959
Box 9a
"Swine, Therefore, Shall Ye Become: A Discussion of the Circe Legend in Faust, Part I" by Basya-Marie Romanoff
1965
Box 9a
"Form and Meaning in Goethe's 'Dauer im Wechsel'" by Timothy C. Plowman ('66)
1966
Box 9a
"Tieck's Use of Lyric in Der schönen Magelone" by Walter L. Knorr (grad.)
1967
Box 9a
" 'Siguen Auf Der Linde' (Parzival 249, 11 ff.) And the Turtle-Dove" by Arthur B. Groos, Jr. (Grad.)
1968
Box 9a
Arnim's "Die Majoratsherren": Its Romantic Elements by Mary Ann Copeland (pseudonym Vitzli Putzli)
1970
Box 9a
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg: an Interpretation by Paul David Hobbs (pseudonym Paul Grayson)
1970
Box 9a
Franz Kafka: Ein Altes Blatt - Versuch einer Deutung by Anja Hugel , 18 pp. (In German)
1971
Box 9a
"By Water and By Fire" Second Place (no first place awarded). 12 pp. by Barry Michael Laine ('72).
1972
Box 9a
"Poet and Poetic Process in the Narrative Framework of C.F. Meyer's 'Die Hochzeit des Monchs'," by William D. Wilson .
1975
Box 9a
"Kafka's Der Prozess: the Problem Of Interpretation" by David Vierling 20 pp. Photocopy.
1976
Box 9a
First prize:"Der Eregire, Lantlose Tristan": The Development of the Hero in Gottfried's Tristan, by Michael W. Twomey , grad. student. 29 pp. photocopy
1977
Box 9a
Second prize: "Adalbert Stifter: Die Formulierung und Realisierung siener Kunstauffassung in den Bunten Steinen" by Valerie Rynne , grad. student. 16 pp. Photocopy.
1977
Box 9a
Third prize: "Formula, Style and Structure in the Nibelungenlied", written by Rudy Spraycar , grad. student. 21 pp. Photocopy.
1977
Box 9a
"Sunrise and the Griffon: Wolfram's Dawn Song Sine klawen" by H. Peiromene ( Mary F. Wack )
1979
Box 9a
"A Short Guided Tour Through Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of Art" by Ifsan Sorbutts ( Peter Simpson , grad student, May 2, 1980)
1980
Box 32
"Sprachlandschaft" by Daniel J. Kane , graduate student in Germanic studies. 20 pp. photocopy
1981
Box 9a
"Eulogy of a Lost Cause: Heine's 'Ludwig Marcus' " by Catherine Creecy , graduate student in German Literature. 20 pp.
1982
Box 9a
"Die Rose Schönheit Soll Nicht Sterben": Celan's Translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets by I. Zensen (Graduate) [ Claire Oshetsky , Dept. of Modern Languages & Linguistics]
1983
Box 32
"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)
1984
Box 32
Wîp and Grâl and the Bipartite Structure of Parzival's Book IV by Paul Warren ( Kevin Marti , graduate student)
1985
Box 32
Bildungsroman: An Unfulfilled Genre? ( Andrew Hewitt , Graduate) [A. Wright]
1986
Box 32
Thoughts on Kretzschmar, Beethoven, and Doctor Faustus ( Steven Bilecka )
1988
Box 32
Adorno's "The Aging of the New Music" as a Political Theory of Criticism, by Arthur C. T. Strum
1990
Box 32
Conflict, Collective Action and the Life Chances of Ethnic Organizations: German Newspapers in Chicago, 1846-1956, August Spies [ Elizabeth West ]
1991
Box 32
"Do wuohs in Niderlander eins edelen kuneges kint": Siegfried and Duby's Paradigm of the 12th Century Aristocratic Youth, David F. Johnson
1992
Box 32
"Wenn du geredet hattest, Desdemona": Die Roll von Milleilung und die Macht von Sprechen, Ariel O. Morgan ( Toni J. Querry )
1993
Box 32
Language and the Mechanics of Presence in Herder's Plastik, Robert Wallace ( John R. Crutchfield )
1996
Box 32
The 'New Ethic' and its Danger by Helen Stocker ( Tracie Matysik )
2000
Box 32
The Significance of Life: The Unity of Hegel's Dialectic of Self-Consciousness by John Namjun Kim
2000
Box 32
Good or Evil?: The Impact of Thought on Society as Interpreted from Hoffman's The Golden Pot and The Sandman, by Jessica Lammers
2001
Box 32
Mental Division Between Man and Insect, by Esther Livingstone
2001
Box 32
Of Death, Kitsch, and Melancholia: Aimee und Jaguar, by Anna Parkinson
2001
Box 32
Kant's Judgment of Music ( Contrary to All Experience), by Marianne Tettlebaum
2001
Box 32
The Intangible Effects of One's Faith, by Jamie Wainstock
2001
Box 32
Second prize, freshman/sophomore: An Autopsy of Memory: a Discussion of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum Extension to the Berlin Museum, by "Jonathan"
2002
Box 32
Second prize, freshman/sophomore: Verwirrungen, by Melissa Jones
2002
Box 32
Second prize, junior/senior: The Time and Place of Modernity, by Alice Carey
2002
Box 32
First prize, graduate: On German Musical Conversations: The Allgemeine musikalische Zietung and the Ideas of "True" String Quartets ca. 1800, by "P."
2002
Box 32
Second prize, graduate: Subjectivity in Sartre's Works and Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Patricia O'Leary
2002
Box 32
Family Disputes: Tensions in Hegel's Conception of the Family Ryan Plumley
2003
Box 32
A Summary Approach to Kafka's 'Das Urteil' Josh Dittrich
2003
Box 32
Vicissitudes of Choice Anstasia Pouchkareva
2003
Box 32
A Fairy Tale Come True Lindsay Wilczynski
2003
Box 32
Second place Freshmen/Sophomore: Melancholia and Self-Reflexive Realities in Goethe's "Faust" Trevor Miller
2004
Box 32
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
2004
Box 32
Second place, graduate: Konvention als Kritik? Mozarts 'klavier sonate mit begleitung einer Violin, KV 526 Wiebke Thormahlen
2004
Box 32
Second place, graduate: Bewegung' and Ruhrung': Musikspielende Androide und die Schnittpunkte ihrer kulturellen Bedeutungen im spaten 18. Jahrhundert in Deutschland Adelheid Voskuhl
2004
Box 32
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
2005
Box 32
First place, junior/senior: Das Primat des Praktischen in Kants "Grundlegung" Joseph "Jed" Lewinsorn
2005
Box 32
Second place, graduate: Heteronomy and Autonomy: Communication Media in Fichte's Encounter with Mesmerism Sean Franzel
2005
Box 32
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
2005
Box 32
Second place, sophomore: "The role of political criticism in Goethe's Egmont and Schiller's Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell" Myrtle McClintock [Daniela White]
2006
Box 32
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]
2006
Box 32
Second place, senior: "Soames on Wittgenstein: Unpacking the Private Language Argument" [Wesley Mattingly]
2006
Box 32
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]
2006
Box 32
Second place, graduate: "Siegfried Kracauer and Bertolt Brecht: A Dialogue on the Author in the Age of Mass Media" [Erica Doerhoff]
2006
Box 32
First place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Analysis of Franz Kafka's 'A Fasting Artist,'" John Smith [Ismael Amaro]
2007
Box 32
Second place, Junior/Senior: "Goethe's Challenge," Friedrich Schiller [Somone Glanert]
2007
Box 32
Second place, Junior/Senior: "Preserving the Best of Faust: ergo scripendium est," A. Scott [Amanda Guise]
2007
Box 32
First place, Graduate: "Nach Selbstportraits von Käthe Kollwitz," Anja Brandt [Stephanie Gehring]
2007
Box 32
First place, Graduate: "Grounding Place: Temporal Plasticity in Hölderling's Nachgesänge and Der Winkel von Hardt," "Grad" [Alexis Briley]
2007
Box 32
First place, Graduate: "The Composer's Canvas: CPE Bach, Pictorialism, and German Enlightenment Aesthetics" Katherine H. Walker, "Grad"
2008
Box 32
First place, Graduate: "Aisthetische Literarizität - eine Provokation für die Literaturwissenschaft?", Adalbert Wurst "Grad" [Christian Jany]
2008
Box 32
Second place, Graduate: "Intervention of the Narrator in 'Sine Klâwen,'" Rubin Heritagio "Grad" [Paul Buchholz]
2008
Box 32
First place, Junior/Senior: "Die Familie als Erinnerung in 'Am Beispiel meines Bruders'" [Christopher Muenten]
2008
Box 34
Freshman/Sophomore: "Wie verstehen Faust und Mephistopheles ihre Partnerschaft?" Maren Nordmann [Mallory Matsumoto]
2009
Box 34
Freshman/Sophomore: "Reconsidering Cross-Species Communication: Kafka, Intramodal Analogy, and the Philosopher des Als Ob" X [Ian Wells]
2009
Box 34
Graduate: "Wie die Pfeiler gesprengter Brücken": Experience, Memory, and Writing in Ruth Klüger's weiter leben," Walt von der Vogelweide [Ari Linden]
2009
Box 34
Graduate: "Marx's Politics of Comedy" Rusty Shackleford [Paul Flaig]
2009
Box 34
Graduate: "How to Read: the perceptual demands of Lázló Moholu-Nagy's new vision and Berthold Brecht's Complex seeing" David Bowie [Katrina Nousek]
2009
Box 34
Freshman: Character and its Various Implementation in the Writings of Nietzsche" David Hillel [Daniel Kuhr]
2010
Box 34
Sophomore: "Die Vergleichsanalyse der Gedichten von Paul Celan: 'Zu beiden Handen' und 'Schneebett'" X [Katarzyna Pozniak]
2010
Box 34
Graduate: "The Organon of Freedom: Schelling's Task for Philosophy" [Klas Molde]
2010
Box 34
Graduate: "Realism as Fantasy - Performing Space with Stifter and Keller" Henryk Grzynszpan [Carl Gelderloos]
2010
Box 34
Undergraduate Junior: "Derrida und Gadamar: Verschiedene Analysen von Paul Celan" E. C., Junior [Elizabeth Cai]
2011
Box 34
Undergraduate Senior: "Die Suche nach Bedeutung in Celans Gedichten" Anonymous 1 [Anna Rady]
2011
Box 34
Graduate Student: "Toward a concept of historical truth content in literary texts: Rereading Adorno's 'Rede über Lyrik und Gesellschaft" Max Reiser [Johannes Wankhammer]
2011
Box 34
Third Year Graduate Student: "Uncanny Instruments: T. T. A. Hoffmann and the Musical Uncanny" Lilly Grundner [Amanda Saunders Lalonde]
2011
Box 34
First place, Graduate: "Herta Müller's Materialism and the Failure of a Realist Aesthetics of Catastrophe" [Matteo Calla]
2012
Box 34
First place, Junior/Senior: "Dealing with Kant Defensively" [Jason Yanover]
2012
Box 34
Second place, Junior/Senior: "O ewige Nacht! Wann wrist du schwinden? Searching for the Premier of Die Zauberflöte in Historical Obscurity" [Jason Boada]
2012
Box 34
First place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Die Rolle der Grund-und Hauptschule Bad Bentheim-Gildehaus beim Erhalt des Niederdeutschen in ihrer Region" [Henry Ekwaro-Osire]
2012
Box 34
First place, Graduate: "Jus Sanguinis, Jus Soli: West German Citizenship Law and Melodrama of the Guest Worker in Fassbinder's Angst Essen Seele Auf" [Avery Slater]
2013
Box 34
Second place, Graduate: "Schiller's argument for the Ideal of Humanity: An analysis of Letters 11-16" [Stephen Klemm]
2013
Box 34
Second place, Graduate: "Am Nullpunkt des Realismus: Terézia Moras Poetik des hic et nunc" [Nathan Taylor]
2013
Box 34
First place, Junior/Senior: "Der Krimi als 'Surrogat'? Eine Diskussion des modernen deutschen Kriminalromans mit Bezung auf Brecht" [Laura Carver]
2013
Box 34
Second place, Junior/Senior: "Im Winter der Löwen und The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor: Zwei Interpretationen der Krimi-Gattung" [R. Thora Bjornsdottir]
2013
Box 34
First place, Freshmen/Sophomore: "Verschiedenen Aspekte des Detektivromans in The Big Sleep und Im Winter der Löwen" [Travis Westura]
2013
Box 34
Second place, Freshmen/Sophomore: "On the 'Being' behind 'Doing' and the Problem of Free Will in Nietzsche's Genealogy" [Christina Zhang]
2013
Box 34
First Place, Graduate: "The Righteous in God's Hands: A Funeral Motet as Theological Battleground" [Dietmar Friesenegger]
2014
Box 34
Second place, Junior/Senior: "Durrenmatt und seine Komodie" [Yuezhou Huo]
2014
Box 34
Second place, Junior/Senior: "On Fichte's Theory of Property: Liberalism and Egalitarianism" " [Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval]
2014
Box 34
First place, Junior/Senior: "Reading speechlessness in Tragedy and Traurspiel: Antiquity's Law and Benjamin's Lesson" [Jennifer Dumler]
2014
Box 34
First place, Junior/Senior: "Moses Mendelssohn:"Historical Without Being Historisist" [Jonathan Barry Schmidt-Swartz]
2015
Box 34
Second place, Junior/Senior: "Exposing Metaphysical Subject Via Nietzsche's Genealogical Method" [Carolina Iribarren]
2015
Box 34
Second place, Junior/Senior: "Unhaltbares Gleichgewicht; Amerikanische Auβenpolitik und der Zerfall de Weimarer Republik" [Patrick Molligo]
2015
Box 34
First place, Freshmen/Sophomore: "The Dead Lyric in the Poetry of Hölderlin & Celan" [Amanda Coate]
2015
Box 34
Second place, Freshmen/Sophomore: "The Poet's Condition in Relation to Humanity: Understanding Rilke's Second Duino Elegy Through Close Reading" [Eng Liang Daniel Cheong]
2015
Box 34
First place, Graduate: "Schiller on transgressive realist and idealist characters in On Naive and Sentimental Poetry" [Matthias Muller]
2016
Box 34
First place, Junior/Senior: "On Benjamin's Philosophy of History" [Jacob Wang]
2016
Box 34
First place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Lenz's Claustrophobia" [Jonathan Collazo]
2016
Box 34
Second place, Graduate: "Das Freiheitsbot; 'Refugeeradio'; A Best Practices Model to Facilitate and Nurture Refugee Narratives" [Rosalie Purvis]
2016
Box 34
Second place, Graduate: "Kaliszer Spitzen. Erzahlanfang als Problem in Katja Petrowskajas Vielleicht Esther" [Annika Klanke]
2016
Box 34
Second place, Junior/Senior: "Life, Subjectivity, and Utility in Bach Historiography" [Patrick Braga]
2016
Box 34
Second place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Une oeuvre extremement belle, une oeuvre qui compte" [Clio Ariane Bowers]
2016
Box 34
Third place, Junior/Senior: "Losing Lenz: Against Time, Sleep, and Self" [Austin P. Ward]
2016
Box 34
First place, Junior/Senior: "You Only Need to Change Your Direction: Kafka and Inertia" [Noa Weley]
2017
Box 34
Second place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Irrationality and Redemption in 'The Burrow'" [Allyson Evans]
2017
Box 34
First place, Freshman/Sophomore: "Das Selbst: Nu rein Produkt des Staates? Eine Krise der Identitat in Peter Schneiders Roman Der Mauersprinter" [Juliane Scholtz]
2017
Series XI. The Graduate Prize in Philosophy
Box 10
Elements from the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill
1914
Box 10
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, by "Bernard Claravallensis" ( James Edwin Creighton )
1916
Box 10
Comte and Spencer: A Study of the Social Organism, by Glenn R. Morrow
1920
Box 10
A Philosophical Consideration of the Theory of Relativity, by Harold R. Smart
1921
Box 10
Emile Boutroux, by Lucy Shepard Crawford
1922
Box 10
Hegel's Theory of Absolute Knowledge, by Anna Forbes Liddell
1923
Box 10
Logic and Realism in the Law: Mr. Justice Holmes, by Harvey C. Mansfield
1928
Box 10
A Study in Psychological Theory, by Carl M. White
1931
Box 10
The Unique and the Universal in the Experience of Beauty in Art, by Bertram Morris
1932
Box 10
An Introduction to the Timely and Synoptic Elements of Metaphysics, by "Anti-Scala Perfectionis" (H. A. Myers)
1933
Box 11
Kant's Deduction of the Categories, by Cedric Evans
1934
Box 11
Inference in Pragmatic Logic, by Milton H. Williams
1936
Box 11
On the Doctrine of Truth and Existence in Descartes, by Alan Gewirtz
1937
Box 11
Language and the Structure of Mathematics and Physical Fact, by Robert Eugene Marshak
1938
Box 11
Criticism and Comparison of the Empirical Methods of Dewey Alexander and Wittgenstein, by Stuart M. Brown
1939
Box 11
An Essay on Leibniz and the Identity of Indiscernibles, by Stuart M. Brown
1940
Box 11
The Purpose of the Parmenides, by Atwell R. Turquette
1942
Box 11
On Aristotle's Notion of Intuitive Knowledge, by John O'Connor
1946
Box 11
Reason, Impartiality and Philosophical Method, by Daniel Kading
1948
Box 11
Plato and the Open Society, by Marcus G. Singer
1949
Box 11
Sermon on the Self, by William H. Gass
1950
Box 11
Prichard, Green, and Moral Obligation, by Charles H. Monson, Jr.
1952
Box 11
Reason and Conduct in Kant, by I. Cant Badley
1953
Box 11
Some Platitudes Concerning Ethics, by I. Cant Badley
1954
Box 11
The Circle in Aristotle's Ethics, by Walter O. Pearson
1955
Box 11
C. I. Lewis' Analysis of Terms, by David Keyt
1955 also
Box 11
How is Language Possible, by Sydney Shoemaker
1956
Box 11
On the Rationality of Persuading, by John N. Garver
1957a
Box 11
How do I Know that I Have a Headache?, by Sydney S. Shoemaker
1957b
Box 11
Private Language, by John Newton Garver
1958a
Box 11
Some Metaphysical Pictures, by Hugh S. Chandler
1958b
Series XII. The Guilford Prize
Box 12
The Social Life of the Crow, by Miss Leonora B. Fletcher
1903
Box 12
The Oxford Movement, by E. J. Tucker [George H. Sabine]
1904
Box 12
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
1905
Box 12
The Problem of the Muscovite, by E. E. Hazard
1906
Box 12
Individualism and Present Tendencies in America, by W. A. Shea
1907
Box 12
The Painter and the Layman, by A. Layman Painter
1909
Box 12
Old Ideals and Selfish Ideals, by Miss Stella Heilbrunn
1911
Box 12
The Sophists, by Murray W. Bundy
1912
Box 12
A Sojourn in the Primeval, by Philohelos (Mr. Francis Harper )
1913
Box 12
The Immigrant and American Labor, by Epictetus (Mr. E. A. deLima )
1914
Box 12
Youth the Inquirer, by Albert William Meyer
1915a
Box 12
The Dualism of the Vision of the Middle Ages and its Consummation in Dante, by Miss Ellen B. Armstrong
1915b
Box 12
Children of Lillith, by Miss Signe K. Toksvig under the pseudonym of "C. E. Smith"
1916a
Box 12
Virgil and the American School-boy, by Miss Lila V. Stevenson under the pseudonym of "R. S. Monroe"
1916b
Box 12
Concerning Youth, by William E. Seely
1917
Box 12
Science, by Mr. William Schack, pseudonym of H. F. Wincon
1918
Box 12
Essay on Clio, by Ernest L. Hettich , pseudonym Thornbury
1919a
Box 12
The Heritage of Revolution, by Barnett Nover , (Alan Tarvey)
1919b
Box 12
The History of an Idea, by Barnet Nover
1920
Box 12
Fact and Sense of Fact, by John M. Maloney , pseudonym John Hancock
1921
Box 12
Virginia Tobacco, by Miss Thelma F. Brumfield , pseudonym W. K. Carr
1922
Box 12
Colors, by Miss Edith W. Parrott , pseudonym Denver Baird
1923
Box 12
Our Leaders of the Future, by James Arthur Humphrey, pen name for Putnam J. Jones
1924
Box 12
The Poet's Glass, by K. C. Walz , pseudonym Arthur A. Kingsley
1925-26
Box 12
The Alchemy of Art, by Hyman Yudewitz , pseudonym Guzano de Seda
1927-28
Box 12
Macaulay, by Francis D. Wormuth
1929
Box 12
Two English Views of the French Revolution: A Study in the Making of Historic Public Opinion, by Harold A. Lehrman , pseudonym Clinton
1930
Box 12
A Criticism of Tolstoy's Theory of Art, by George Burns ( George H. Weltner )
1932
Guilford Prize not awarded
1933
Box 13
Didacticism in Lyric Poetry, by Irene Samuel
1934
Box 13
Specimens of the Prose of Engelsdrockh, by Argus John Tresidder
1935
Box 13
The Apprenticeship of Parliament in the Reign of Elizabeth, by Goldwin Smith , pseudonym Keith Winter
1936
Box 13
Sentence of Defeat: a Study of George Gissing, by Christopher Morley, Jr. , pseudonym Thomas More
1937
Box 13
Pascal: An Essay, by Boris I. Bittker
1938
Box 13
Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Howard R. Houston , pseudonym Felix Randall
1939
Box 13
The City that Grew from the Desert, by Paul Leighton
1940
Box 13
War Babies, by Howard Jay Samuely , pseudonym Lee Conrad
1942
Box 13
A. E. Housman, by John Detmold
1943a
Box 13
In the Hills of Idaho, by Aaron Zucker , pseud. Alan Storm
1943b
Box 13
Of Dust and Nothing More, by Anita E. W. Monsees, pseud. Caril R. Hewes
1944
Box 13
Carlyle's "Revolutions" Lectures, by Roderigo de Triana [ Robert Pearsall ]
1952
Box 13
In Quest of Myself, by "Searcher"
1953
Box 13
The Parliamentarianism of the Constitutional Democratic Party in the First State Duma, by William Slany
1954
Box 13
The Evolution of My Personal Philosophy, by I. Joel Abramson
1955
Box 13
English Prose Specimens, by Lawrence Lipking
1956
Box 13
Eliot's Criticism of Metaphysical Poetry, by Sister Thomas Marion
1957a
Box 13
The Mythology of Self, by Sandra E. Mortola
1957b
Box 13
Ernest Hemingway & The Spanish Earth, by Richard Freedman
1958a
Box 13
Selections from Three Essays, by Robert Edward Scholes
1958b
Box 13
The German Threat to the Concert of Europe, by Lindsley E. Webster
1959
Box 13
A Review of H. D. F. Kito's Greek Tragedy, by James French Forrest
1960a
Box 13
The Burden of Aeneas: John Peale Bishop, by Andrew John Von Hendy
1960b
Box 13
Engels' Conception of History, by Leonard Kimerman, pseud. Tim Kooper
1960c
Box 14
Milton's "Lycidas" and Donne's "The Funerall," by Joreth Min Yeeshe
1961
Box 14
Dramatic Structure and Symbol in La Dolce Vita, by Hilary Thimmesh
1962
Box 14
"Heart of Darkness" and the Failure of the Imagination, by James L. Guetti, Jr.
1963a
Box 14
A Comparison of the Fifth Acts of Othello and The Maid's Tragedy
1963b
Box 14
A Short View of the Eighteenth-Century Syncretists, by Robert Folkenflik
1963c
Box 14
Towards a Definition of the Dandy, by Stanley Corngold
1964a
Box 14
The "Speculatiue and Offic'd Instrument": Reason and Love in Othello by Jared Curtis
1964b
Box 14
Carlyle and the Epic, by Robert Folkenflik
1965
Box 14
W. B. Yeats and "The Shadowy Waters", by Schendley Carstairs ( Jerald L. Bullis )
1967
Box 30
Verbal Irony in Literature: A Psychoanalytic Investigation ( Frank Stringfellow )
1988
Box 30
Minor Mundus: The Figurative Use of the Body in Pearl ( Kevin Marti ) ["Patrick A. Gesis" pseudonym]
1988
Series XIII. The Heermans Prize
Box 14
This Is What Happened, by Charles B. Moss
1933-1934
Box 14
Subway Face by "Seymour Abbott Gross" ( Lawrence Abbott )
1934-5a
Box 14
Dollar Deliriums, by Avery B. Cohan (2nd prize)
1933-1934-5b
Box 14
I Would Found A University, by Violet J. Brown
1934-5
Box 14
Nearer My God to Thee, by Robert M. Gorrell
1935-6
Box 14
Life of John Doe, by Seymour B. Berkowitz
1935-6
Box 14
Barge Baby, by Charles Brunelle
Box 14
Farmers' Holiday, by Boris I. Bitther
1938
Box 14
And the Pursuit of Happiness, by Harold E. Johnson
1938
Box 14
Intermission, by Harold E. Johnson
1938
Box 14
Virgil, by Alexander Zeeve
1938
Box 14
Apartment 3D, by Edward L. Kamarck
1939
Box 14
Chenango Crone, by Edward L. Kamarck
1940a
Box 14
Domestic Relations, by Philip Mandel
1940b
Box 14
Fork in the Road, by Ann Nash
1941
Box 14
A Fugue Bacchanal, by Frederick M. Shelley
1941
Box 14
The Ballad of Claudius Smith, by Irving R. Merrill
1941
Box 15
The Melting Pot and the Woman in Bed, by Frederick Shelley III
1942a
Box 15
American Pieta, by Albert N. Perretta
1942b
Box 15
Superman's Wife, by Jacob Regal
1942
Box 15
Fair Day Thursday, and Private Performance, by Patricia Colbert
1943
Box 15
Retreat, by Walter Scheinman
1943
Box 15
Ten Cents' Worth of God-Help-Us, by Katherine Thompson
1943
Box 15
Oblivion Is Not Here, by Margaret M. Taylor
1944
Box 15
Postwar Planning, by James Breckenridge
1945
Box 15
Mea Culpa, by Walter Scheinman
1946
Box 15
And the Pursuit of Happiness, by William Work
1946
Box 15
Five Characters in Search of Saroyan, by Roy Friedlander
1946
Box 15
Alias Edward H. Rullof, by William Work
1946
Box 15
Up Sword, by Roy Friedlander
1946
Box 15
The Reprieve, by Roy Friedlander
1946
Box 15
Tomorrow Without Leave, by Walter Scheinman
1946
Box 15
While the Moon Grows Cold, by Walter Scheinman
1946
Box 15
He-Keeps-Them-Awake, by David Thompson
1946
Box 15
Spoil, by Walter Scheinman
1946
Box 15
Adirondack Mile, The Late Adam Fry, by Frank C. Kallen
1949
Box 15
A Man's Duty, by A. G. Dower
1950
Box 15
The False Teeth, by S. B. Tartaro
1950
Box 15
The Muskrat Ramble, by Carl Caruso
1953
Box 16
Confessional, by Donald Brederman
1954
Box 16
The Man on the Bar Stool, by Alex Panas
1954
Box 16
The Barrister's Brownstone, by Jane Plunkett
1956
Box 16
A Death in the Family, by Bruce Bloom
1956
Box 16
Moon Hound, by Gordon Roston
1958
Box 16
Give to Me a Golden Star, by Robert Merritt
1958
Series XIV. Mary B. Knoblaugh Prize. Essays, 19 -19 .
Box 16
"Liberté, Egalité, Sororité," by Harriet Johnson ('68), 1941- . 60 pp. Bound multilith copy.
1966-67
Box 16
"The Role of Upstate New York in the Early Women's Rights Struggle" by Michael K. H. Platzer ('67), 19 - . 33 pp. Orig. typescript.
1969-70
Box 16
"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.
1970-71
Box 16
"The Legal Status of Women in 18th Century America" by Marylynn Salmon
1974
Box 16
"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 )
1976
Box 16
"Organized Female Charity: 1797 to 1814" by Catherine Streitwieser
1977
Series XV. The Messenger Prize
Box 16
The Relation of the Socialistic Movement to Human Progress, by Carrie Hartman
1907
Box 16
A Factor in Civilization, by Andrew McKay
1908
Box 16
The Decline in the Use of Torture in Criminal Procedure, by Miss H. N. Bircholdt
1911
Box 16
Modernism and Progress, by J.R. Knipfing
1911
Box 16
The American Immigrant - a Force in Modern Progress, by Chalmers
1914
Box 16
The Sectaries in Nuremberg: An Episode in the History of Religious Liberty, by Austin Patterson Evans
1915
Box 16
Human Perfectibility and the Revolutionary Epoch, by Paul B. Schumm
1916
Box 16
The Rise of the Protestants of France to Civil and Religious Freedom, by Hugh MacKenzie
1920
Box 16
The Development of Opposition to American Slavery and Disunion in England, by Louis Gottschalk
1921
Box 17
An Outline of the Development of Cabinet-Party Government in England, by William Cranborne , pseud.
1922
Box 17
The Relation of the Privy Council and Parliament from the Accession of Elizabeth to the Death of James I, by David Willson
1923
Box 17
The Progress of International Arbitration, by David Greenel
1924
Box 17
China and the West, by Pearl S. Buck
1925
Box 17
A Study in the Rise of Opposition in the House of Commons, by Edmund Abingdon
1926
Box 17
Changing India, by Daniel G. Woodard
1928
Box 17
The History of English Thought, a Sketch, by Francis Wormuth
1929
Box 17
The Edict of 1787: an Episode in the History of Toleration in France, by John Stewart
1930
Box 18
The Growth of the Nation Now Called Bolivia, by William Urbans
1931
Box 18
Progress and Natural Justice in Myth and Logical System, by Henry A. Myers
1932
Box 18
The Beginnings of Learned Journalism, 1665-1730, by Sherman Barnes
1933
Box 18
The French Idea of American Independence, by Robert Palmer
1934
Box 19
Manfred of Sicily, by William Bark
1935
Box 19
The Treaty of Washington, 1871, by Goldwin Smith
1936
Box 19
The Sailors in the Roman Imperial Navy, by Chester Starr, Jr.
1937
Box 19
Comment on Public Affairs in the Works of Langland and Gower, by Arthur Ferguson
1938
Box 19
Evolutionary Ethics in George Eliot and Samuel Butler, by Claude Bissell
1939
Box 20
Montesquieu's Interpretation of the English Constituition, by John Stapleton
1940
Box 20
An Essay in the History of Natural Religion, by Stuart Brown, Jr.
1941
Box 20
The Population Growth and Land Pattern of Eastern N.Y., 1790-1808, by David Ellis
1942
Box 20
Fifty Years of Discrimination Against Citizen and Alien Japanese in the United States, by Howard Samuely
1944
Box 20
The Impact of Greek Rhetorical Theory on Rome: 146-55 B.C., by Helen North
1945
Box 21
Petrarch on the Origin and Definition of Poetry, by Giovanni Boccaccio
1947
Box 21
The Agnostic Dilemma, by John Palmer
1955
Box 21
Bernard De Fontenelle: The Idea of Science in Eighteenth Century France, by L eonard Marsak
1957
Box 21
Parmenides and Melissos, by Dorothy Perry
1957a
Series XVI Messenger-Chalmers Prize
Box 21
Undergraduate award: Elizabeth K. Hook , "Riots in Axholme: 1626-1695."
1975
Box 21
Graduate award: Norman D. Roth ; "The Development and Nature of Hebrew Secular Poetry in Muslim Spain (10th-12th Centuries)."
1975
Box 21
"Perspectives on Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey in the English Renaissance" by Frank V. Cespedes
1977
Box 21
"An Analysis of Thomas Mann's Bekenntnisse Des Hochstaplers Felix Krull" by Daniel Sebastian Fredrich
1978
Box 21
"The Transformation in Warfare During the Years 200-1000" by John D. Williams
1978
Box 21
"Reluctant Royalists: Oxford Citizens and the English Civil War In Historical Context" by Cathy Herbert
1984
Box 21
"Letters from the Diaspora" by Alexander Learned Singer , pseud. Hasdai ibn Shaprut
Box missing
"'Hempire': Patriotism, Empire, and the British Working Class circa 1902," Gary M. Sernovitz
1995
Series XVII. The Morrison Prize Poems
Box 22
Helen of Heaven and Helen of Earth, by Clarence Earl Simonson
1912
Box 22
A Mood, by Morris G. Bishop
1913
Box 22
A Captive, and A Winter Talk, by Paul B. Schumm
1914
Box 22
Sonnet, by Archibald Oboler
1916
Box 22
The Baron's Daughter, by J. G. Schurman, Jr.
1916
Box 22
The Comet, The Beah-comber, Brushwood Fires, Pheidippides, Disillusionment, The Weed, by Samuel Wilson
1917
Box 22
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
1918
Box 22
To a Dreamer, The Night-Shift, Coeur du Printemps, Night, The Alchemist, by DeElbert Keenan
1919
Box 22
The Singer, Heart's Desire, Moods, Lullaby, The Dance of Death, by Frederick H. Lape
1920a
Box 22
Cathedrals of Old France, The Firefly, Villanelle, Silken Sails of Mystery, by L. E. Kittredge
1920b
Box 22
Poems submitted by Dale Raymond Mitchell
1921
Box 22
Poems submitted by Robert Collyer Washburn
1922a
Box 22
Poems submitted by Mary G. Willcox
1922b
Box 22
Poems submitted by Helen Martha Peavy and James Hutton
1924a &amp, b
Box 22
Poems submitted by Edith Horton
1925a
Box 22
Poems submitted by Elizabeth Rauschenbusch
1925b
Box 22
Poems submitted by Hyman Yusewitz
1926
Box 22
Poems submitted by William Bradford Willcox
1928
Box 22
Poems submitted by Miss Kimi Gengo
1929a
Box 22
Poems submitted by James B. Gitlitz
1929b
Box 22
Poems submitted by Miss Kimi Gengo
1930a
Box 22
Poems submitted by James B. Gitlitz
1930b
Box 22
Poems submitted by Julia Eaton
1932a
Box 22
Poems submitted by Muriel F. Hochdorf
1932b
Box 22
Poems submitted by W. H. Sternberg
1933
Box 22
Poems submitted by Robert P. Darlington , George Eiten , Lucille V. Oaklander
1948
Box 22
Poems submitted by Robert Wheller and M. Irving Clifford
1949
Box 22
Poems submitted by Susan E. Goodman
1954
Box 22
Fruit from Every Tree, by Sandra Montola
1955
Box 22
Poems submitted by Dorothy Gilbert
1957
Box 22
Poems submitted by Roger Harry Fogelman
1958
Series XVIII. The Sherman-Bennett Prize
Box 23
Free Government by Harry Z. Harris
1912
Box 23
Government and Administration, by Seth Victorius Elting
1914
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The Reform Movement in American Politics, by W. D. Smith
1916
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China and a Free Government, by Che Kwei Chen
1919
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Municipal Government in the Hands of the People, by Lawrence B. June
1920
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Immigration Regulation and the Principles of Free Government, by H. Solovay
1921
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The Jury and Free Government, by Harold D. Feuerstein
1929
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The Basis of Obedience, by W. H. Sternberg
1933
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Constitutional Theory of Sir Edward Coke, by Francis D. Wormuth
1934
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America, Democracy, and 1941, by Bruce Johnston
1941
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The Principles of Free Government, by Harry Jindwich Benda
1954
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Alien and Sedition Acts, 1957, by Stephen Alan Schuker
1957
Series XIX. Sampson Fine Arts Competition
Box missing
Modern Art and Peruvian Pottery: A Comparison and Discussion by Barbara Loebenstein
1957
Series XX. The Woodford Prize
[all known competitors] (whole program is usually included; listed below are the indicated winners)
Box 23
Burke and Webster as Orators
n.d.
Box 23
Circumstances in the State of Society which Distinguish the Modern from the Ancient Orator
n.d.
Box 23
The Medieval and Modern Ideal
n.d.
Box 23
Public Opinion, the Standard of Criminal Punishment, by "Bishop Butler"
n.d.
Box 23
National Unity as a Tendency of the Age, by "Chie"
1872
Box 23
National Constitutions, a Growth and Development, by anon.
1873
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The Religion of Thomas Paine, by Arthur L. Andrews
1893
Box 23
A Eulogy on John Bright, by E. I. White
1893
Box 23
Lynch Law and Civilization, by Herbert L. Fordham
1894
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Education and Ideal Citizenship, by George Dyer
1895
Box 23
Truth and Dogma: The Irrepressible Conflict in Massachusets, by Charles Rammelkamp
1896
Box 23
The Practical Age, by Daniel Wells
1897
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The South and the Negro, by Charles Mayer
1898
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The Attainable Ideal in Politics, by Herbert Lee
1899
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The New Social Consciousness, by Eugene T. Lies
1900
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Judaism - Its Mission in the Twentieth Century, by Sidney S. Lowenthal
1901
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Liberty or Law: A Plea for Private Enterprise, by Michael Ford
1902
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Southward, Ho!, by Alfred Huger
1903
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The Debt of Humanity to the Engineer, by Harry F. Porter
1905
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The Lawyer: Money Maker or Peace-Maker?, by G. G. Bogert
1906
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The Power of the Individual, by N. D. Becker
1906
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William Winthrop Taylor
1907
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Elizabeth Ellsworth Cook
1908
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The Price of Democracy, by A. Levine
1909
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The World and the College, by Hymen Barr
1910
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George Morris Wolfson
1911
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Alan Husted Colcord
1912
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Leslie Herbert Gloser
1913
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Harold Riegelman
1914
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Duane Spencer Hatch
1915
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Morris Julius Escoll
1916
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Ying Ching Yang
1917
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The Lansing-Ishii Agreement, by Chen Ku
1918
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Walter Measday, Jr.
1919
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Universal Military Service, by W. H. Farnham
1920
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Irma Greenwalt
1921
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Amnesty for Political Prisoners, by Madeline Grosshandler
1922
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The Significance of Unemployment, by Esther Antell
1923
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Louis Pasteur, by Sidney Goldstein
1924
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Cultural Barrenness of American Life, by Katz
1925
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The Scholar in the State, by M. H. Friedman
1926
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An American Statesman, by Donald C. Bryant
1927
Box 26
Patriotism - Sentiment of Sentimentality, by Robert D. Jones
1928
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Shall We Let Man Live?, by Ida Blinkoff
1929
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Armenia's Plea for Justice, by A. L. Abkarian
1930
Box 26
Latin-America and Dollar Diplomacy, by Gerardo Auguste
1931
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No Compromise With War, by Albert E. Arent
1932
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A Requiem for the Civil Jury, by David Altman
1933
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Peace Through Revolution, by Fred Berkowitz
1934
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A New Future, by S. H. Bolz
1935
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Christianity: A Philosophy of Action, by Fellows
1936
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New Patriotism, by Clarke T. Case
1938
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A Positive Peace Policy, by Leon Marsh
1939
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Need We Fear for Democracy?, by Robert Hogsett, Jr.
1940
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Light in the Shadows, by Herbert Abrams
1941
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no winner indicated
1942
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no winner indicated
1943
Series XXI. Unknown Prize
Box 27
"Lincoln and Davis," by H. S. Thayer , pseudonym "Sergius"
1891
Box 27
"The Crisis of 1896, The Place of 'l'experience radicale' in French History" by Leslie Decker (L. E. Fraternite)
n.d.
Series XXII. Moses Coit Tyler Prize
Box 28
"Dean Atcheson and the Ideological Origins of the Cold War" by George S. Lustig
1978
Box 28
"Herman Melville's Typee: Preconception and Perception in Polynesia" by John Samson
1979
Box 28
"The Exile of the Dead: New York's 1823 Interment Law. A Study in Cultural Conflict" by Eric Himmel
1979
Box 28
"Bring us Together: Congressional Reaction to the Invasion of Cambodia, 1970" by Marie Gottschalk
1980
Box 28
"Seabrook Action Drama: a Reading of an Anti-Nuclear Event" by William T. Vollmann , Arts '81
1981
Series XXIII. Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize
Box 29
John J. Whalen (A & S; '80)
1978
Box 29
Jon Tabakin (Honorable mention: Benjamin A. Liemer )
1979
Box 29
Gail Tischkoff , David Laws , Becky Myers
1980
Box 29
Howard S. L. Coale
1981
Box 29
Timothy W. Muskat , Arts '82
1982
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Gerard Nadeau
1983
Box 29
Myra Koonce
1985
Box 29
Thomas Hawks
1990
Box 29
Matthew Zarnowiecki
1997
Series XXIV. Elmer Markham Johnson Prize
Box 29
Suzanne Eck , "The Isle of Avalon"
1978
Box 29
Alan G. Dexter , no title (English)
Fall 1978
Box 29
Jennifer Park , "Taylor's Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God" (Philosophy)
Fall 1978
Box 29
Susan Conrad , "Dylan Thomas' 'Fern Hill' " (English)
Spring 1979
Box 29
Lynne Chase , "A Question of Understanding" (English)
Fall 1979
Box 29
John Golder , "Troilus and Cressida: Contradictions of Love, War, and Moral Choice"
Spring 1980
Box 29
Kenneth Locke , "The Western Quest: A Summing Up?" (Government 100.1)
Fall 1980
Box 29
Geoffrey Potter , "Wealth Tradition Family"
Spring 1981
Box 29
Cynthia Cupples , "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Magic Barrel"
Fall 1981
Box 29
Michele Marie Stern , "Faulkner's Use of Verb Tense in As I Lay Dying" (English 270)
Spring 1982
Box 29
Leigh Polk , "Artistic Indulgence" (English 108)
Spring 1982
Box 29
Heidi Duitsman "The Barber of St. Petersburg" (Russian Literature 104)
Fall 1982
Box 29
Mirian Reshotko , Gatsby: Simplicity Fails, (English 270.2) (2 copies)
Spring 1983
Box 29
Roger Giner-Sorolla, "Mr. T" (Fr. Lit. 109)
Fall 1984
Box 29
Nick Paige , "Techniques of 'Enduring Suspense'" (English 108)
Spring 1985
Box 29
Ellen McGill , "The Bones of Djalming: Social Nasties and Political Questions" (Biology and Society 104)
Spring 1986
Box 29
Eric Franz , "The English Game Laws" (Law Liberty and Crime in England, 1700-1850) [E. A. Reynolds]
Spring 1986
Box 29
Elizabeth Briskin , "The Character of Joab"
Fall 1987
Series XXV. Kasdan-Montessori Peace Prize Essay
Box 33
Educational Reform and Peace by John D. Tower , Government 181
1981-82
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If Humanity Can be Educated for Peace by Amy Kenton , Introduction to International Relations
1982-83
Box 33
The Modern State: A View on War and the Social Contract by Alexander Jonas , Government 383
1983-84
Box 33
Prisoner's Dilemma and The Analysis of International Conflict by Ngoh Hock-Soon , Government 477
1984-85
Box 33
Morality in the Nuclear Age: Past, Present and Future by Ethan Oelman , Government 384
1986-87
Box 29
The West German Peace Movement: Cyclical or Unique? by Aaron Karnell , Government 395
1989
Series XXVI. Class of 1916 Prize (Best Senior Honors Essay)
Box 31
"Strategies for revision in the novels of Margaret Drabble" (75 pp. Typescript) [1st prize], by Nancy GLazener
Spring 1983
Box 31
"Thomas Pynchon And The Language of Science" (28 pp. Typescript) [2nd prize], by Joseph Tabbi
Spring 1983
Series XXVII. The Douglas E. Whitney Prize
Box 28
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 )
1988
Box 28
The International Transport of Hazardous Wastes ( Sharon B. Skolnik )
1989