Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Right in line with its new policy of taking a more active part in the dissemination of knowledge, the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa yesterday announced the selection of George L. Haskins '35, as chairman of the newly-created Committee "for the publication of an undergraduate essay showing distinctive originality and independent thought...
...sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser Forsytes) even before the appearance of this strange and unsafe creature (Bosinney). It is perhaps straining a point for the sake of consistency to carry over this symbolical hierarchy into all of Galsworthy's work: the essay manages it with but little implausibility. If the symbolistic explanation seems to quaver in some places, it is balanced by first-rate exposition, of the theme of Forsytes possessiveness, of the links between Forsyte character and the changing world outside its demesne...
...that characterizes the rest of Ronsseauistic ideas. Nationalism and it is almost synonymous with liberalism being Ronsseauistic and Romantic in its origins, is fundamentally contradictory; that is to say that the ideals contained in the nationalist conception are inevitably overwhelmed by the real, just as Rousseau after a long essay on the beauty of pure childhood announces that he has just placed one of his children in an orphanage. In the same way nationalism starts as the doctrine of the brotherhood of man and finally culminates in integral Fascism and inevitable...
Through the generosity of Mr. Edwin DeT. Bechtel, a prize of $100 will be awarded in the years 1933-34 and 1934-35 for the best essay on an approved subject connected with the Philosophy of William James. The prize is open to students of philosophy registered in Harvard College or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Essays must not exceed 10,000 words in length; and must be submitted on or before March 1, the subject having been approved by the Chairman of the Division of Philosophy on or before February...
...felt was dictatorship in the Mayor's proposed economy bill (TIME. Jan. 15). Equally hot was Mayor LaGuardia's defense: He must balance the budget by Feb. 1 to get Federal money for subway construction, and, said he. the budget could not be balanced by an "essay" on dictatorship. At Albany the two statesmen were all coolness and suavity. Graciously the Governor invited the Mayor to spend the night in his mansion; graciously the Mayor declined. They exchanged their views at luncheon. By 3 o'clock they had arrived at a compromise and were...