Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago I wrote an essay in which I argued that our contemporary universities, (having Harvard particularly in mind), were on the decline. My reason for believing that this was the case was that the ever increasing interest in Economics was gradually replacing the study of Art and the Classics in our Universities. I believed this to be a symptom of decay because Economics is in general studied with the selfish and mercenary object in mind of being able to make money more efficiently, while Art and the Classics are generally studied because of a disinterested love for knowledge...
...three new prizes will be as follows: a prize of $50 to the member of the Junior Class in the college who shows the greatest promise among undergraduates concentrating in History and Literature; a prize of $100 offered by the University Menorah Society for an essay written by an undergraduate on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people; and a book suitably inscribed for a student who, not needing financial aid and therefore ineligible to compete for the Elizabeth Wilder Prize, receives the highest mark at the mid-year examination in elementary German. This...
...adventure, and as a reward. After 32 years in the service of a devoted constituency, which returned him regularly to office every two years during a career more meritorious than spectacular; after holding for six years the highest post which his colleagues could bestow-the Speakership-he chose to essay the more difficult and dubious task of winning the electorate of Massachusetts to send him to the Senate for the culmination of his career...
...dispatch stated that Nash's essay on "Investment Banking in England" had won the first prize...
...immediate entourage,"presents the exiled All Highest's views on Germany's War Guilt, the Treaty of Versailles, the Experts' Plan and the League of Nations. The article is sealed with the ex-Kaiser's stamp of approval: "I am deeply grateful for this capital essay. I authorize its publication as it is, and have no changes to suggest* "William...