Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time and energy expended on them, and in the Senior year there is a reduction of one course in the work required of them. By an interesting coincidence the novel features of President Hopkins' plan embody substantially the changes proposed at Harvard by the winner of the recent CRIMSON essay contest. By the time the University goes the full length in establishing this new "honor system", course requirements in the final years may be abolished altogether, and the tutor alone will prescribe the work of the student to meet his individual needs...
...following Essay, winning the contest run by the Yale News for a six weeks' trip to Europe, was submitted by Russell Lee Post Yale '27. The subject to be discussed was "What particular policy, plan, or improvement you would like best to see extended or inaugurated at Yale...
...above quotations are taken from the winning essay of the Yale News prize essay contest, which was submitted by R. L. Post, Yale...
...readers should imagine that all Oxford dons are movie fans. I admit that it is highly desirable that they should be but I fear that such a state of things is ideal and as yet outside the range of practical academies. So I must claim undisputed paternity of the essay-title he mentions on the cinema as a form of art, while denying stoutly that I encourage the evils which he implies in the mysterious term "Distribution". On the contrary, movie-going is the common, if not the unique form of concentration exercised by Oxford undergraduates; and accepting that fact...
...inefficiency I have been tempted to invent them. In practice, a great deal depends upon the individual tutor's strength or weakness, permanent or periodical; and much more depends on the pupil's capacity to excite the tutor's anger, interest or fear according to the nature of the essay of the following discussion. Only two rules can be stated with certainty...