Word: authorship
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...soon, in anticipation of a busy season. A call has been issued for original plays by undergraduates, to be considered for production. The preference of the Club, in selecting plays to produce, have always inclined toward pieces written by students of the College, rather than to those of external authorship. Later in the year there will be an opportunity for those who are interested in writing plays for presentation by the Club to obtain practical instruction in playwriting, Gross said. Plays may be of any length and of any type. Manuscripts should be in the hands of C. H. Johnston...
...woman who goes in for technical training," went on the pioneer publisher, "knows just what he wants, and gets it. And more and more young men are seeking assured professions for which they can get definite preparation. There are classes in different kinds of writing, but no schools of authorship. The college student, taking the regular academic course, learns to criticize, to tell the true in literature from the false, but is there anything in his teaching that will help him to create? General college culture doubtless increased the powers of a Lowell or a Long-fellow, but it might...
...influence of college education on authorship, I once made up a list of the American authors who had won deserved fame in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900, from Noah Webster to Seton Thompson. I book it from Professor Brander Matthews' chronology of literature. There were 59 authors. Of these 28 went to college, 31 did not. Some of the collegians did not graduate, many of the early ones graduated very young, Emerson, Hawthorne and Motley at 18, Lowell...
...stays away from college he must work all the harder, and indeed in that very effort may sometimes lie the germ of successful authorship. Mark Twain was a student all his life, a great reader and an absorber of history. I remember when he became interested in a certain memory system which I was trying to master at the same time. It is said that while experimenting with it he committed to memory the front page of the New York Sun on a train between New York and Hartford, and recited it to his wife on his arrival...
...whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines. Roast Beef Medium, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls and So Big are the most familiar echoes to her name. She trains severely for authorship; swims, dives, secludes herself in a Basque fisher village...