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 1898
The British and French in Newport (First Prize Lippitt Prize Essay), Mary W. Dimock
The Life History of an Animal Cell, William Ferguson Harley
North Kingstown in the Revolution, Mildred Wayne Harvey
Food, and Its Relation to Domestic Science, Harriet Florence Turner
Observations of the Adaptation of the Leaves of Kalmia latifolia to Environment, Grace Ellen Wilson
Submissions from 1897
Decadence of Country Towns in Rhode Island, Welcome Sands Carmichael
Some Contributions of Pure Math to Science, Herbert B.E. Case
Iron and Its Value, Archie F. Grunnell
The Colonial Dame, Gertrude Marie Hanson
Johanna Ambrosius, Bessie B. Hoxie
A Central Heating-Plant for the Rhode Island College, Albert Prince Kenyon
Petroleum, Charles F. Kenyon
Government Education of the Indians, Eliza Alice Tefft
Labor Versus Capital, Irving Thomas
Submissions from 1896
Charles Lamb., May Brown
Jackscrews, Albert Lewis Kenyon
The Water Supply of the Rhode Island College, Edgar Francis Tabor
Submissions from 1895
Comets and Meteors, Lincoln N. Oatley
Submissions from 1894
The Rhode Island Greening, George Edward Adams
Steam Boilers, George Clarence Ammonds
How Electricity May Be Used to Operate Machinery, John Franklin Knowles
The Liquor Traffic Once More, Reuben Wallace Peckham
The American Food Problem, Charles Lawrence Sargent