Word: essay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much of it would Gulian have fulfilled without accident? He himself tried work of various sorts and did not find ,that it filled every crevice- just to take one of the three. Nevertheless, it is an interesting, serious, first novel. At times it is too much an essay. But it holds the attention...
...League of Nations Non-Partisan Association has received a large number of manuscripts in its essay contest on "Why the United States Should Join the League of Nations." Corliss Lamont '24, chairman of that organization's University and College Students Committee, announced yesterday that manucripts had been received from both men's and women's colleges all over the country...
...Harold Bisbee '00 is the honored recipient of $100 in gold representing first prize in the "Scofflaw" Contest. His essay was one of the few submitted that would have won approval from the English Department, and perhaps he has his Harvard education to thank for that...
...winning essay, made public this morning for the first time, contains little that is new. Its chief merit is the apt summary of Mr. Delcevare King's views. "The willingness with which obedience responds to enforcement is the acid test of true democracy," says Mr. Bisbee, in the course of his arguments to prove that the lawless should be abhorred as a "Scofflaw...
...seem to be "dry rot", "camelouse", and "dryad". But the sponsor of "scofflaw" comes in for his share of the scorn. A "Boston deb" has entered the word "Delcevare" as best stimulating a dry. She desires that the prize be held and awarded to the person writing the best essay on "Why it is a stinging insult to call a man Delcevare." Most of the entries, however, have come from married women and on all sorts of paper, some scrawled in pencil on scraps, others neatly written on the best grade of highly scented vellum...