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William Edward Harrison 2G., of Roxbury, Mass., has won the Dante Prize of $25 for the best essay by a student in any department of the University or by a graduate of not more than three years' standing, on a subject drawn from the life of Dante. His essay was entitled, "Dante's Mantle, the Meaning of Dante in Our Time...
THIS little book is a collection of three essays first published between the years 1915 and 1927. The last two merely develop and claborate the contral thesis introduced in the first, "America's Coming-Of-Age." In the first year of the war Mr. Brooks found the United States still in Knicker-bockers, although tall for its ago. The present year of grace, by his standards, would mark America's first long trousors, while still enjoying the adolescentpains of adjustment and still, perhaps, in a state of arrested development, Certainly America, still by Mr. Brook's standards...
...could have made out of it either an amusing character study or a serious piece of literary criticism. Unfortunately be has done neither. He does not stick close enough to his main points, nor does he develop his ideas as fully as they deserve; the result is that his essay stagnates; it never comes to life. This is not true of the other critical work in this issue, the book reviews. These are on the whole, excellent. Mr. Stanford's criticism of the poems of 1000 winters is extremely sensitive and intelligent; if the poetry criticism in most...
This issue also contains an appropriate tribute to the late Dean Briggs by Professor Hillyer, and an essay on Henry James and Harvard by John Brooks Wheelwright. Articles like these by older men, lend distinction to The Advocate, and the practice of including them is one that I hope will be continued
Fifty dollars worth of books, the prize given annually for the best tutorial essay written by a Sophomore in the Department of English, has been awarded to Francis James Whitfield '36 of Springfield for his essay "Ultimate Vision" -- a study of the career of T. S. Eliot...