Word: essay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James G. Miller '37 of Lakewood, Ohio, won the Edwin DeT. Bechtel prize of $100 for the best philosophical essay submitted by graduates or undergraduates in Philosophy. Miller transferred from the University of Michigan...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize was won by Karl E. Schevill '37 of Berkely, California, a transfer student from the University of California in 1934. This award is given annually for the best essay by an undergraduate dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden...
There in the bright sunshine loomed a simple fountain swathed in a Union Jack -a memorial to George V given by the inhabitants of England's Windsor and Canada's Windsor. Standing by it with bared head the King gave his address, an essay in modesty and propriety. Gist: "To me personally the memory of my father will always bring the inspiration of a high example." A cord was jerked, the Union Jack fluttered away, a cascade of water sprang from the fountain, a band blared the national anthem...
From the lowly flounder to the lordly broadbill swordfish, Angler Heilner loves them all. To each he devotes a chapter- weakfish, bluefish, striped and channel bass, sailfish, marlin, tuna, tarpon, and a definitive essay on the bonefish, wiliest of all-setting at the end of each chapter an extremely useful condensed guide for the handling of each species...
...same roof. There, in "an immense half-subterranean room, piled with books, parcels, packets of unbound volumes, manuscripts from the press," Virginia Woolf wrote. Many of her friends have been politically active feminists, and from her study Virginia Woolf has done her bit for woman's cause. Her essay on the position of women stated the now-classic requisite of modern women who want independence: "500 [pounds] a year and a room...