Word: essay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bonn Byrne, his place in literature, estimated and set down so that professors as well as financiers could comprehend it, is the subject of an essay which won the Freshman prize for excellence in English last week at Yale College. Its author is Paul, son of Andrew W. Mellon-recently elected to the busy and portentous staff of the daily newspaper of that university...
...Professor Dines Out", which appears in the June "Harpers", has then a special interest as the second of a series. For this essay is but a triad of anecdotes tending to prove the thesis of its predecessor. In a word, the new professor in a provincial college receives few invitations to dinner and those he does receive lead to utter social failures. He finds the president a blusterer. When he forsakes gown to dine with town, he finds the attitude of his hosts vulgarly condescending; while dinner with a colleague proves, to say the least leaden. These, evidently...
...final examination on May 15 will include a number of specific questions as well as an essay, the plan being to test the candidate's knowledge of facts, his understanding of their relative significance, and his interpretation of their importance. The examination will be given simultaneously in each of the 11 competing colleges...
...brought to fruition by a generous discipline. It was a discipline that was understood, brought to a climax by a united Canadian corps, a corps whose merits and qualities I am at a loss to express in words. It is expressed best in the words of Pope's 'Essay on Man,' when he said...
...fear of being prematurely pigeonholed by life. But these extenuations do not suffice to save Cynthia from standing indicted for modernity's most prevalent shortcoming: emotional anemia induced by self-seeking and self-indulgence. The book is far too finely executed to be referred to solely as a moral essay. It is an intricate story sensitively told. Yet many readers will bethink themselves of many Cynthias and wonder if it is too late, or just timely, to pass the book along...