Prize essay collection

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Identifier: 7-9-1317

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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.

Dates

1872-2017.

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, and German

Extent

8.4 cubic feet. (8.4 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

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.

SERIES LIST

<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s1">Series I. Arthur Lynn Andrews '93 Award for Creative Writing</ref> </emph>: Box 1
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s2">Series II. Barnes Shakespeare Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 2-3
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s3">Series III. Lt. David Chrystall Prize [1972]</ref> </emph>: Box 4
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s4">Series IV. Charles Lathrop Pack Foundation Forestry Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 5
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s5">Series V. Charles Lee Crandall Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 6
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s6">Series VI. Corson Browning Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 6-7
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s7">Series VII. Corson French Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 8-9
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s8">Series VIII. Corson Morrison Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 9
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s9">Series IX. Corson Bishop Poetry Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 9
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s10">Series X. Goethe Prize Essays</ref> </emph>: Boxes 9a, 32, 34
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s11">Series XI. Graduate Prize in Philosophy</ref> </emph>: Boxes 10-11
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s12">Series XII. The Guilford Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 12-14, 30
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s13">Series XIII. The Heermans Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 14-16
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s14">Series XIV. Mary B. Knoblaugh Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 16
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s15">Series XV. The Messenger Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 16-21
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s16">Series XVI Messenger-Chalmers Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 21
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s17">Series XVII. The Morrison Prize Poems</ref> </emph>: Box 22
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s18">Series XVIII. The Sherman Bennett Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 23
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s19">Series XIX. Sampson Fine Arts Competition</ref> </emph>: Item missing
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s20">Series XX. The Woodford Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 23-27
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s21">Series XXI. Unknown Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 27
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s22">Series XXII. Moses Coit Tyler Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 28
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s23">Series XXIII. Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 29
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s24">Series XXIV. Elmer Markham Johnson Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 29
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s25">Series XXV. Kasdan-Montessori Peace Prize</ref> </emph>: Boxes 29, 33
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s26">Series XXVI. Class of 1916 Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 31
<emph render="bold"> <ref target="s27">Series XXVII. Douglas E. Whitney Prize</ref> </emph>: Box 28

Physical Description

Manuscripts.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Nancy Dean and Julia Parker
Date completed:: August 2000
EAD encoding:: Peter M. Martinez, November 2001Evan Fay Earle, August 2008
Date modified:: RMC Staff, May 2017