Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April issue of the same magazine will contain a vigorous criticism of a major movement in modern education by Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 under the title of "The Junior College." "Revisiting a River", an essay by Professor Bliss Perry, will appear in the same issue...
...Union Essay Contest will close on March 1. The essays are limited to 2500 words, but any subject may be employed that is capable of literary treatment...
Every true vagabond feels a distinct urge toward the tropics. To sit before a typewriter and attempt to transcribe that urge is to essay the impossible. But nearly all residents of the more temperate zones have their dreams and visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire...
...Last week my son Paul, 19, whose present interests are apparently literary rather than financial, was 'elected Vice Chairman of the Yale Daily News. Only a sophomore, he does not regularly begin to write editorials until 1928. In his freshman year he captured a prize for an English essay and was one of the first members of his class to have poetry published in the Lit (undergraduate literary monthly). Another Pennsylvanian, one Lloyd H. Smith, was chosen for the highest office on the News-the chairmanship. Two smart young men from Dayton, Ohio, will guide the News' finances...
...read the whole essay; and before you do, go to hear Professor Murdock speak on James Fenimore Cooper at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 2. His point of view will probably not be that of Mark Twain's, but it will also probably be more nearly right...