Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute of International Education has offered three prizes, of $150, $100, and $50, for essays on the general subject of "The Far East--The Key to the Armament Problem". An essay may be on any of the following three specific subjects...
...might be led to think that a play along such lines would either read like an essay or flare like a dime novel. As a matter of fact, "Inheritors" does neither. The author, through interesting characterization and many well-known tricks of stage-craft, manages to hold the attention and tickle the mental pallet throughout its entire length. So that when he is through, the reader suddenly finds that he has swallowed a moral pill almost without knowing it. And therein lies the charm...
...thousand dollars in prizes will be given this year to American students by the Frances D. Pollak Foundation for Economic Research. One prize of $500 will be awarded the best essay written by an undergraduate in a college or school of college grade. Five hundred dollars will be given to the student in high school or other school of secondary grade, and $1000 to any student, without restriction, submitting the best essay. To be considered in the contest, an essay must be not more than 10,000 words in length, and be on one of the following subjects...
...Auslander's poem contains some brilliant lines, although to borrow the language of golf he is inclined to press. The rest of the poems are ably done. The editorials are uneven; Mr. Whitman's essay on snobs is pleasant and ingenious; the sketches are amusing...
...omitted. On the other hand Professor Bliss Perry has returned from a year engaged in literary work and will again conduct his courses on the "History of English Literature from the time of Elizabeth to the present," on "Tennyson", on "Carlyle", on "Emerson", and on the "English Critical Essay". Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99 will have charge of English D this year in place of Assistant Professor K. G. T. Webster '93, while Professor Webster will be in charge of English 6, the course which in former years has been conducted by Mr. A. S. Pier '95. Professor...