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 1898

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The British and French in Newport (First Prize Lippitt Prize Essay), Mary W. Dimock

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The Life History of an Animal Cell, William Ferguson Harley

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North Kingstown in the Revolution, Mildred Wayne Harvey

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Food, and Its Relation to Domestic Science, Harriet Florence Turner

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Observations of the Adaptation of the Leaves of Kalmia latifolia to Environment, Grace Ellen Wilson

Submissions from 1897

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Decadence of Country Towns in Rhode Island, Welcome Sands Carmichael

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Some Contributions of Pure Math to Science, Herbert B.E. Case

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Iron and Its Value, Archie F. Grunnell

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The Colonial Dame, Gertrude Marie Hanson

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Johanna Ambrosius, Bessie B. Hoxie

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A Central Heating-Plant for the Rhode Island College, Albert Prince Kenyon

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Petroleum, Charles F. Kenyon

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Government Education of the Indians, Eliza Alice Tefft

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Labor Versus Capital, Irving Thomas

Submissions from 1896

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Charles Lamb., May Brown

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Jackscrews, Albert Lewis Kenyon

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The Water Supply of the Rhode Island College, Edgar Francis Tabor

Submissions from 1895

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Comets and Meteors, Lincoln N. Oatley

Submissions from 1894

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The Rhode Island Greening, George Edward Adams

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Steam Boilers, George Clarence Ammonds

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How Electricity May Be Used to Operate Machinery, John Franklin Knowles

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The Liquor Traffic Once More, Reuben Wallace Peckham

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The American Food Problem, Charles Lawrence Sargent