George B. Sohier Prize
Awarded forBest thesis by a student of English or Modern Literature
Country United States
Presented byHarvard University
First awarded1890
Websitehttp://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k4326&pageid=icb.page50285

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] Resident graduate students attending 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] Waldo Higginson (1814–1894)[4] graduated from Harvard in 1833 and had given the grant to honor his brother-in-law, George Brimmer Sohier (1832–1877),[5] an 1852 Harvard graduate.

Early recipients

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

References

  1. ↑ Harvard University Press
  2. ↑ Harry and Lucy concluded: Being the last part of early lessons, Volume 3 By Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgewor
  3. ↑ Descriptive and Historical Notes on the Library of Harvard University By Potter Alfred Claghorn
  4. ↑ Harvard University Press
  5. ↑ Harvard University Press
  6. ↑ Catalogue Harvard University 1900
  7. ↑ Modern language notes, Volume 6 By Johns Hopkins University, JSTOR (Organization)
  8. ↑ The Elizabethan Hamlet: a study of the sources, and of Shaksperes̓ ... By John Corbin 1895
  9. ↑ Secretary's report, Issue 1 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1892
  10. ↑ Volumes 1-2 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1893
  11. ↑ Secretary's report, Issue 1 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1895
  12. ↑ Harvard University Library
  13. ↑ Harvard College Class of 1900 secretary's first report
  14. ↑ Harvard Crimson June 20, 1901
  15. ↑ The Harvard Crimson
  16. ↑ Radcliffe College. Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Radcliffe College
  17. ↑ Catalogue - Harvard University By Harvard University 1905
  18. ↑ Secretary's first report By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1906
  19. ↑ Harvard University Library
  20. ↑ Radcliffe College. Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Radcliffe College
  21. ↑ Catalogue Harvard University- 1910
  22. ↑ ecollections and reminiscences of life in the Bay Area from 1920 onward : oral history transcript / and related material, 1964-1969"
  23. ↑ The President's report By Harvard University 1914
  24. ↑ The President's report By Harvard University 1914
  25. ↑ The Harvard University register, Volume 42 By Harvard University. Student Council
  26. ↑ Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments 1916
  27. ↑ Harvard University Gazette Volume 12 1916
  28. ↑ Harvard University Gazette Volume 12 1916
  29. ↑ New England aviators 1914-1918: their portraits and their records, Volume 1 edited by Caroline Ticknor
  30. ↑ School & society, Volume 8 By Society for the Advancement of Education 1918
  31. ↑ General Catalogue Issue 1920 Harvard University
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