Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this extraordinary thoughtful little essay, Mr. Brane holds that in constructing a "political science" several fundamental preliminary steps are necessary: the scope of the field of inquiry must be delimited, a "unifying concept" based on the simplest and most universal phenomenon observed within the field must be agreed on, and a "sequential" relationship among the manifold data must be established...
Notwithstanding these criticisms, the essay is regarded by the reviewer as a searching and suggestive philosophical inquiry of a very high order...
...purpose of the editor in the presentation of this volume of contemporary periodical literature has been, in his own words, "to show that in our day the essay is not only an art form but--and possibly even more so--an agency active in molding human thought and action." He has selected works from Harper's, the American Mercury. The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, North American Review, Forum and Century, Yale Review, Fortune, and the Current History Magazine. Among the authors represented are Theodore Drieser, Jane Adams, Christian Gauss, James Truslow Adams, Albert Jay Nock, James Rowland Angell, Robert Hillyer...
Robert Hillyer, in an essay called "Education Unvisited," discusses in a convincing way the limitations that educational systems and formal requirements have placed upon the acquisition of an education that stresses individual creativeness and originality. To illustrate his ideas he tells the story of a student who came to his office once to enquire about some question of syntax. Instead of answering the question directly Professor Hillyer launched into a discussion of the beauties of Mackail's translations from the Greek anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed...
...Johnson writes an engaging article on "The Coming American Revolution" which is decidedly more reasonable and objective than many that have written on the subject. The editors of "Fortune" are represented with their timely and now well-known article on "Arms and the Men." Zona Gale writes a delightful essay on "Period Realism" and Newton Arvin does an equally pleasing piece of writing on "Our Haughty Poets...