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.Harvard University Press 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.Harry and Lucy concluded: Being the last part of early lessons, Volume 3 By Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell EdgeworDescriptive and Historical Notes on the Library of Harvard University By Potter Alfred Claghorn Waldo Higginson (1814–1894)Harvard University Press graduated from Harvard in 1833 and had given the grant to honor his brother-in-law, George Brimmer Sohier (1832–1877),Harvard University Press an 1852 Harvard graduate.
Early recipients YearPrize WinnerThesis1890Curtis Hidden PageThe Influence of Diderot on German LiteratureCatalogue Harvard University 1900 1891Raymond CalkinsCriticism During the Classical Periods of German Literature.Modern language notes, Volume 6 By Johns Hopkins University, JSTOR (Organization)1892*John CorbinThe Elizabethan HamletThe Elizabethan Hamlet: a study of the sources, and of Shaksperes̓ ... By John Corbin 18951892*William Tenney BrewsterThe Rise and Influence of ReviewsSecretary's report, Issue 1 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 189218931894William Vaughn MoodySidney's Arcadia and Its SourcesVolumes 1-2 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 189318951896Carleton Eldredge NoyesJoseph and Thomas Warton and in their relationship to the English Romantic MovementSecretary's report, Issue 1 By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 18951897Beulah Marie DixPublished Collections of English and Scottish Ballads, 1765–1802."Harvard University Library189818991900Henry Latimer SeaverThe Shepherd’s Calendar and Its SourcesHarvard College Class of 1900 secretary's first report1901Charles M. UnderwoodA Comparison between the Critical Methods of Sainte Beuve and TaineHarvard Crimson June 20, 190119021903Ernest BernbaumElizabethan Domestic DramasThe Harvard Crimson1904Frances Elizabeth NewellGeoffrey of Monmouth and the Sabrina LegendRadcliffe College. Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Radcliffe College1905Walter Ralston NellesThe Dramatic Works of Henry FieldingCatalogue - Harvard University By Harvard University 19051906Homer Howells HarbourThe Influence of Keats on English Poetry of the nineteenth CenturySecretary's first report By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 19061907*Hermann Hagedorn Jr.The Plays of the English Comedians in Germany, and the Reasons underlying the Mutilation of the Elizabethan OriginalsHarvard University Library19081909Louise Anne Hannon Lord Chesterfield, A Study of the Survival in the 18th century of the Aristocratic IdealRadcliffe College. Annual reports of the president and treasurer of Radcliffe College\1910Norman Otto FoersterHenry David Thoreau: PoetCatalogue Harvard University- 19101911Benjamin Harrison Lehmanecollections and reminiscences of life in the Bay Area from 1920 onward : oral history transcript / and related material, 1964-1969"191219131914*Delight Walkly HallThe President's report By Harvard University 19141914* Elizabeth JacksonThe President's report By Harvard University 19141915Harold Gersham Files,The Harvard University register, Volume 42 By Harvard University. Student Council1916Helen Constance WhiteReport of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments 19161917*Harold Shepherd BennettComparison of the Lyric Poetry of Mörike and Heine with Reference to the Principles of Lessing’s Laocoön” Harvard University Gazette Volume 12 19161917*Waldo Cutler PeebleSwedenborg's Influence on Goethe”Harvard University Gazette Volume 12 19161918 Martin Luther Hope,New England aviators 1914-1918: their portraits and their records, Volume 1 edited by Caroline Ticknor Thomas Hardy”School & society, Volume 8 By Society for the Advancement of Education 191819191920Stephen Albert FreemanA Comparative Study of Aeschylus and CorneilleGeneral Catalogue Issue 1920 Harvard University * Prize Shared By Dual Winners
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