Caroline Wilby Prize

The Caroline I. Wilby Prize was founded in 1897 in memory of Caroline I. Wilby, by her friends and former students. The prize is given annually to the student who has produced the best original work within any of the departments of Radcliffe College, Cambridge in Massachusetts.[1] The prize is only awarded if a dissertation or thesis is considered worthy enough.[1]

The prize was given for the first time in 1899 to Kate Oelzner Petersen, for her thesis On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale.[2] Other winners include the medievalist Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), for her thesis Morgain, la fée, a study in the fairy mythology of the middle ages,[3] the historian Grace Lee Nute (1895-1990) for her thesis American foreign commerce (1825-1850)[4] and also the astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit (1907-2007), for her thesis On the Spectroscopic Determination of Absolute Magnitudes….[5] Florence Shirley Patterson Jones's dissertation, Surface photometry of external galaxies[6][7] won the Wilby Prize in 1941.[8]

Recipients
Year Recipient Title
1899 Kate Oelzner Petersen[1] On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1900 Lucy Allen Paton[1] Studies in the fairy mythology of Arthurian romance in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1904 Belva Mary Herron[1] Progress of Labor Organization among Women in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Caroline Strong[1] Tail-Rhyme Strophe in English Poetry
1905 Eleanor Harris Rowland[1] Aesthetics of the Repetition of Visual Space Forms in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1906 Frances Hall Rousmaniere[1] Certainty and attention in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1907 Mabel Ellery Adams[1] An Inquiry into the Condition of one hundred deaf persons who have been pupils at the Horace Mann School in Boston
1909 Kate Fairbanks Puffer[1] Interrelations of psychophysical rhythmical processes in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1910 Maud Bassett Gorham[1] The traditions of restoration comedy in the works of Richardson, Fielding & Smollett in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1911 Ruth Holden[1] Reduction and Reversion in the North American Salicales in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1912 Charlotte Farrington Babcock[1] A study of the metrical use of the inflectional e in Middle English, with particular reference to Chaucer and Lydgate in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1913 Elizabeth Church[1] The Gothic romance : its origins and development in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1915 Evelyn Spring[9] Quo Modo Aeschylus in Tragoediis Suis Res Antecedentis Exposuerit: A study of exposition in Greek tragedy in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1916 Frances Isabella Hyams[10] A brief history of the American theatre : with especial reference to the eighteenth century, supplemented by collections toward a bibliography before 1900 in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1917 Caroline Frances Tupper[11] Oliver Goldsmith as a Critic in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1918 Olive B White[12] The Verse Translations of John Dryden
1919 Marian Irwin[13] Effect of Electrolytes and Non-electrolytes on Organisms in Relation to Sensory Stimulation and Respiration in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Nellie Gertrude Chase[13] Studies in allegory in English literature of the eighteenth century in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1920 Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks[14] Quantitative studies on the respiration of Bacillus subtilis (Ehrenberg) Cohn in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Bernice V Brown[14] Status of armed merchantmen in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1921 Grace Lee Nute[15] American foreign commerce (1825-1850) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1928 Marine Leland[16] The damsel-errant in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1938 Dorrit Hoffleit[17] On the spectroscopic determination of absolute magnitudes : with application to southern stars of types later than A in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1941 Florence Shirley Patterson[8] Surface photometry of external galaxies in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

References
  1. Radcliffe College. Admissions office (1915). Requirements for admission to Radcliffe College. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [Cambridge, Mass. : Radcliffe College].
  2. Kate Oelzner Petersen, On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale, OCLC 843035504
  3. Lucy Allen PatonStudies in the fairy mythology of Arthurian romance, OCLC 2310327
  4. Grace Lee Nute, American foreign commerce (1825-1850), OCLC 83755649
  5. Dorrit Hoffleit, On the Spectroscopic Determination of Absolute Magnitudes, With Application to the Southern Stars of Types Later than A, 1938, OCLC 84574797
  6. Barbara L. Welther, "Florence Shirley Patterson Jones (1913-2000)" Archived 2019-06-06 at the Wayback Machine American Astronomical Society.
  7. Annie J. Cannon, "Report of the Astronomical Fellowship Committee" Annual Report of the Maria Mitchell Association 39(1940): 11-12.
  8. "Mother of Three Wins Top Radcliffe Honors". The Boston Globe. June 18, 1941. p. 17. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  9. Harvard University (1916). Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments. University of Michigan. pp. 282.
  10. Harvard University, Harvard University President's Office (1917). Annual Report of the President of Harvard University to the Overseers on the State of the ... New York Public Library. University Press. pp. 283.
  11. Harvard University (1918). Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments. University of Michigan. pp. 266.
  12. William Roscoe Thayer, William Richards Castle (1919). The Harvard graduates' magazine. Harvard University. [Boston, Mass. : Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. pp. 74.
  13. Harvard University. The annual report of the President of Harvard University to the overseers on ... Princeton University. University Press, 1920. pp. 226.
  14. William Roscoe Thayer, William Richards Castle (1920). The Harvard graduates' magazine. Harvard University. [Boston, Mass. : Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. pp. 118.
  15. Harvard University. The annual report of the President of Harvard University to the overseers on ... Princeton University. University Press, 1922. pp. 296.
  16. Alumnae Association of Smith College (November 1929). Smith Alumnae Quarterly. College Archives Smith College Libraries. Alumnae Association of Smith College. pp. 511.
  17. Meggers William F. (1949). The Scientific Monthly Vol-lxviii. American Association for the Advancement of Science. pp. 172.
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