Word: essay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time for the submission of essays to the Union Prize Essay Contest has been extended to March 1. It has been found that the original time limit--February 15--is too near the end of the mid-year period, and although the number of manuscripts forthcoming has indicated a sufficient amount of interest on the part of the students, the committee thought it advisable to extend the opportunity to many who are temporarily inconvenienced by their examinations...
...certainly if the editor of the Advocate must get his article from the man "who is best equipped to deal with it," if he must invite the completely adequate essay "on the technique of modern football" or "the teaching of literature at Harvard," are we not assuming that such authoritative knowledge exists among our undergraduates (one would hardly care to call on our professors except very infrequently), or, granting such knowledge, that the man who knows can also write...
...have it that he can write. Will an essay on the technique of modern football stir even languidly the reader of the Advocate whom the teaching of literature at Harvard keeps awake of nights? Again perhaps . . . but that is another question...
...marriage question, in spite of the comic sub-head, "A Pr-r-roblem Story!", and a story-thesis, "Talbot and Atropos," by Mr. L. F. Ranlett '21, an intricate treatment of an astronomical possibility, are thrown in for good measure. There are no poems; there is no familiar essay...
...editors are coming to realize the mark for which they must aim if the magazine is to succeed. The opportunity for the Harvard Magazine lies in the field of the unusual and the unconventional; the Advocate by custom and tradition covers the ground of the conventional story and essay. The opening for the Harvard Magazine is not in an attempt to rival the Advocate and to compete with it on its own ground, but to branch out into new and at present unexploited fields...