This collection contains digitized copies of Rhode Island State College (now University of Rhode Island) Lippitt Prize student essays and senior theses for the years 1894 to 1901.

According to the Rhode Island State College annual reports for the years 1898 through 1901, the Lippitt Prize was awarded for the best written and delivered essays on the history of Rhode Island during the American Revolution. These essays were delivered in the style of a Cincinnati Oration and read on the Monday preceding commencement.

The purse consisted of one hundred dollars divided into two prizes, sixty dollars for 1st place and forty dollars for 2nd place and was established through the generosity of former Governor Charles Warren Lippitt (October 8, 1846 – April 4, 1924). Lippitt served as governor from May 29, 1895 to May 25, 1897. The Lippitt Prize was discontinued after 1901. For more information, contact archives-group@uri.edu.

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Submissions from 1900

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Rhode Island's Committee of Correspondence, Bertha Douglass Tucker

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Municipal Transportation, Charles Noyes Wheeler

Submissions from 1899

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Acetylene Gas; Its Preparation and Value as an Illuminant, Alfred W. Bosworth

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Determination of Atmospheric Constituents, Ralph Ordway Brooks

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Libraries Past and Present, Lillian Mabelle George

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Amusements in Colonial Times, Mildred Wayne Harvey

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Heating and Ventilation, Blydon Ellery Kenyon

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Artificial Refrigeration, Carroll Knowles

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Modern Tendencies in Technical Education, Harry Knowles

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Test of a 25 K. W. Dynamo in Use at the Rhode Island College, Merril Agustus Ladd

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Combustion Analysis; Estimation of Carbon & Hydrogen, Clifford Brewster Morrison

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Test of High-Speed Engine, William Frazier Owen

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Some Tendencies of Militarism, Walter Clarke Phillips

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Tides, Robert Spink Reynolds

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Abnormal Vapor Densities, Minnie Elizabeth Rice

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The Bradford Manuscript, Abbie Gertrude Sherman

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Lubricating Oils, George Albert Sherman

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Tennyson's Debt to the "Morte D'Arthur", Sally Rodman Thompson

Submissions from 1898

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Der arme Heinrich and the Golden Legend, Sarah Estelle Arnold

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The Strawberry, George Washington Barber

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A Rhode Island Patriot, Alfred Willson Bosworth

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Inversion Applied to the Common Equations of the Conic Sections, Edna Maria Cargill

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Public Highways, John Peter Case

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Our National Police, William Case Clarke

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The Effect of Inventions Upon Social Problems, Henry A. Congdon