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November 15 has been set as the date of the first examinations for undergraduates for the William H. Bliss Prizes in American History, it was announced yesterday by Howard M. Jones, professor of English. The examinations are under the auspices of the Committee on the Extra-Curricular Study of American History, of which Jones is chairman...
...William H. Bliss Prizes in American History, of which the one to be offered November 15 is the first to be announced, are offered as a means of carrying out a recommendation by President Conant in his report of 1936-1937, when he said: "It seems clear...that it would be desirable for every college graduate to have a knowledge of the cultural history of the United States in the broadest sense of the term. . . . A true appreciation of this country's past might be the common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future united...
...meet "Kitty, Copey, and Bliss" again in. "A Letter to Charles Townsend Copeland." To countless college men this poem will mean much; to the uninitiated, it may seem slightly nostalgic, and Mr. Hillyer, realizing the fact, chides himself for reminiscing too early in his life...
...climbed into his own boat, and sat down in the cockpit where he had sat time and again before, times when it had blown steadily from the west, and to sit and be borne along through the waves was bliss; and times again when the wind whistled down from the north, when to sit in that cockpit was o wish to be dead, and to go below into the tumbling cabin was like wrestling with the hand of death itself. He mused a bit in the half light of the tin shed, and his eye caught on a splintered piece...
Charles A. Bliss, associate in Research...