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The George B. Sohier Prize , established by Bostonian businessman Waldo Higginson in 1890, is a $250 annual award for the best thesis of approximately 10,000 words or text submitted by a student of English or Modern Literature at Harvard University or Radcliffe College .[ 1] Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are also eligible for the prize. Higginson's $6,500 grant, later increased to $7,000, was given with the stipulation that the prize money would be drawn from its annual interest and that any surplus would go toward Harvard University Library for the purchase of books. It was also understood that the annual prize would not be awarded if the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences deemed there were no suitable entries for that year.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Year
Prize Winner
Thesis
1890
Curtis Hidden Page
The Influence of Diderot on German Literature[ 6]
1891
Raymond Calkins
Criticism During the Classical Periods of German Literature.[ 7]
1892*
John Corbin
The Elizabethan Hamlet[ 8]
1892*
William Tenney Brewster
The Rise and Influence of Reviews[ 9]
1893
1894
William Vaughn Moody
Sidney's Arcadia and Its Sources[ 10]
1895
1896
Carleton Eldredge Noyes
Joseph and Thomas Warton and in their relationship to the English Romantic Movement[ 11]
1897
Beulah Marie Dix
Published Collections of English and Scottish Ballads, 1765–1802."[ 12]
1898
1899
1900
Henry Latimer Seaver
The Shepherd’s Calendar and Its Sources[ 13]
1901
Charles M. Underwood
A Comparison between the Critical Methods of Sainte Beuve and Taine[ 14]
1902
1903
Ernest Bernbaum
Elizabethan Domestic Dramas[ 15]
1904
Frances Elizabeth Newell
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Sabrina Legend[ 16]
1905
Walter Ralston Nelles
The Dramatic Works of Henry Fielding[ 17]
1906
Homer Howells Harbour
The Influence of Keats on English Poetry of the nineteenth Century[ 18]
1907*
Hermann Hagedorn Jr.
The Plays of the English Comedians in Germany, and the Reasons underlying the Mutilation of the Elizabethan Originals[ 19]
1908
1909
Louise Anne Hannon
Lord Chesterfield, A Study of the Survival in the 18th century of the Aristocratic Ideal[ 20]
1910
Norman Otto Foerster
Henry David Thoreau: Poet[ 21]
1911
Benjamin Harrison Lehman[ 22]
1912
1913
1914*
Delight Walkly Hall[ 23]
1914*
Elizabeth Jackson[ 24]
1915
Harold Gersham Files,[ 25]
1916
Helen Constance White[ 26]
1917*
Harold Shepherd Bennett
Comparison of the Lyric Poetry of Mörike and Heine with Reference to the Principles of Lessing’s Laocoön” [ 27]
1917*
Waldo Cutler Peeble
Swedenborg's Influence on Goethe”[ 28]
1918
Martin Luther Hope,[ 29]
Thomas Hardy”[ 30]
1919
1920
Stephen Albert Freeman
A Comparative Study of Aeschylus and Corneille[ 31]
* Prize Shared By Dual Winners
^ Harvard University Press
^ Harry and Lucy concluded: Being the last part of early lessons, Volume 3 By Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgewor
^ Descriptive and Historical Notes on the Library of Harvard University By Potter Alfred Claghorn
^ Harvard University Press
^ Harvard University Press
^ Catalogue Harvard University 1900
^ Modern language notes, Volume 6 By Johns Hopkins University, JSTOR (Organization)
^ The Elizabethan Hamlet: a study of the sources, and of Shaksperes̓ ... By John Corbin 1895
^ Secretary's report, Issue 1 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1892
^ Volumes 1-2 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1893
^ Secretary's report, Issue 1 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1895
^ Harvard University Library
^ Harvard College Class of 1900 secretary's first report
^ Harvard Crimson June 20, 1901
^ The Harvard Crimson
^ Radcliffe College. Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Radcliffe College
^ Catalogue - Harvard University By Harvard University 1905
^ Secretary's first report By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1906
^ Harvard University Library
^ Radcliffe College. Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Radcliffe College
^ Catalogue Harvard University- 1910
^ ecollections and reminiscences of life in the Bay Area from 1920 onward : oral history transcript / and related material, 1964-1969"
^ The President's report By Harvard University 1914
^ The President's report By Harvard University 1914
^ The Harvard University register, Volume 42 By Harvard University. Student Council
^ Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments 1916
^ Harvard University Gazette Volume 12 1916
^ Harvard University Gazette Volume 12 1916
^ New England aviators 1914-1918: their portraits and their records, Volume 1 edited by Caroline Ticknor
^ School & society, Volume 8 By Society for the Advancement of Education 1918
^ General Catalogue Issue 1920 Harvard University
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