Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another volume by Lucius Beebe '27, one of Harvard's most fruitful undergraduate authors, has found its way into print. "Francois Villon Certain Aspects, is the name of the new work, which has just appeared in a limited edition. It is a critical essay on Villon's place in French poetry of the fifteenth century, and an estimate of his influence on subsequent French versifiers...
...DeWolf Howe contributes a short essay concerning fathers and sons, and the obligations of each to the other. He pictures a father who wisely questions the values of an older and of a newer generation. Mr. Pluribus asks whether, after all, there is not "something in the realistic attitude of youth at the present moment--the attitude of facing facts without blinking--which argues well for the future?" Yet he finds that not all of the wisdom is to be from the youngsters; that the father who "looks for honor in these days has a full half of the burden...
...able editorial writers on the New York Times began it when he composed a venomless little essay comparing Yale, Harvard and Princeton. He called it "Three Sons to College," and wrote as follows...
From the editorial labyrinths of "The American Mercury" Mr. Charles Angoff satellite of the more notorious Mr. Mencken, advances to deevy the Boston of today. In his essay "Boston Twilight" he buries Boston beneath rather violent verbiage. Her stage is, to quote the critic. "A paradise of leg shows"; her literature "as dead at the Hittite empire," her press, "the garbage can of American journalism." Indeed, to read Mr. Angoff's essay is to listen for long pages to a booming, often banal barrage of rather heavy wit. He buries Boston and he does so with a bang...
...judges who will award the prize for the best essay have been announced as follows: Allyn A. Young, Professor of Economics at Harvard, and President of the American Economic Association: Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Electric Company, and Wesley C. Mitchell, of Columbia University...