Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Work for Money. When Author Mitford (the Hon. Mrs. Peter Rodd) heard of Ross's paper, she dashed off an essay for Encounter elaborating his theme (her chief U distinction: "The purpose of the aristocrat is most emphatically not to work for money"). To this, Novelist Evelyn Waugh added a non-U note of his own: "All nannies and many governesses, when pouring out tea, put the milk in first." In the Spectator, the journalist "Strix" (Peter Fleming) pointed out that in U-speech there is "a relish for incongruity." Hence, a dull party can be a disaster, while...
...Helen Choate Bell prize of $400 was won by Alice A. Cooper '56, for her essay, "Portrait of the American as a Young Man." Evelyn H. Janover '56 earned an honorable mention in the Bell competition for an essay, "Henry James and the Acquisitive Society...
...Francis Bowen prize for this year was taken by Thomas E. Patton 3G for an essay entitled "On Fear and Trembling." The prize is the income from the Bowen fund...
Alfred W. Satterthwaite 7G has been awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $100 for his essay entitled "The Moral Vision of the World: A Comparison of Spenser, DuBellay, and Ronsard...
...Washington Post sponsored an essay contest for public school students and invited John Philip Sousa to compose a march for the prize-awarding day when some 22,000 children turned out for the great event (held on the Smithsonian grounds). There the Marine band, as the Post later reported, "played a stirring march composed by Professor Sousa dedicated to the Washington Post...