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.
Submissions from 1900
Rhode Island's Committee of Correspondence, Bertha Douglass Tucker
Municipal Transportation, Charles Noyes Wheeler
Submissions from 1899
Acetylene Gas; Its Preparation and Value as an Illuminant, Alfred W. Bosworth
Determination of Atmospheric Constituents, Ralph Ordway Brooks
Libraries Past and Present, Lillian Mabelle George
Amusements in Colonial Times, Mildred Wayne Harvey
Heating and Ventilation, Blydon Ellery Kenyon
Artificial Refrigeration, Carroll Knowles
Modern Tendencies in Technical Education, Harry Knowles
Test of a 25 K. W. Dynamo in Use at the Rhode Island College, Merril Agustus Ladd
Combustion Analysis; Estimation of Carbon & Hydrogen, Clifford Brewster Morrison
Test of High-Speed Engine, William Frazier Owen
Some Tendencies of Militarism, Walter Clarke Phillips
Tides, Robert Spink Reynolds
Abnormal Vapor Densities, Minnie Elizabeth Rice
The Bradford Manuscript, Abbie Gertrude Sherman
Lubricating Oils, George Albert Sherman
Tennyson's Debt to the "Morte D'Arthur", Sally Rodman Thompson
Submissions from 1898
Der arme Heinrich and the Golden Legend, Sarah Estelle Arnold
The Strawberry, George Washington Barber
A Rhode Island Patriot, Alfred Willson Bosworth
Inversion Applied to the Common Equations of the Conic Sections, Edna Maria Cargill
Public Highways, John Peter Case
Our National Police, William Case Clarke
The Effect of Inventions Upon Social Problems, Henry A. Congdon