Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State University to the Governor of Ohio: For the Year Ending June 30, 1899 In April, 1898, the Hon. William J. Bryan, in a letter addressed to the President of the University, made a proposition to give to the University, if agreeable to the trustees, $250, the same to be invested and the proceeds used as a prize for'th'e best essay discussing the principles, which underlie our form of government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.