Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first essay in this volume is on Locke, "the father of modern psychology," whom Mr. Santayana puts in his place in the history of thought. The second essay is on F. H. Bradley, the sturdy but mistaken moralist, for whom Mr. Santayana, unlike Mr. T. S. Eliot, does not cherish an excessively warm regard. There is, as the third essay, a highly suggestive consideration of the theory of relativity and the new physics. The suspicion is advanced that "even Einstein is an imperfect relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them...
...Harvard Critic there is still opportunity for articles written by undergraduates to be published in the first issue of the Critic which will appear in the early part of November. The last date for articles to be submitted is Sunday, October 15. On the same date an essay contest for Freshmen will be terminated, and the author of the winning essay will probably be made a member of the board of Editors of the Critic...
...word majority is a magic philtre, and he cannot say that the Nazis are unable to brew it; thus, although they have burned his books and routed him out, his cavil is not a constitutional one. Castor calls this another example of the megalomania which Mr. Ludwig's essay on Mussolini the strange and uncritical gimcrack...
...Special-Field Paper," involving problems pertinent only to the work of specialists such as the superintendent of schools, the teacher of mathematics, the psychologist, etc. In the Comprehensive Paper this year, experiments will be tried out with the use of "objective" answers in addition to the usual "essay type" of answers...
...Prize of $100 will be awarded in the academic years 1933-34 and 1934-35 by Edwin DeTurck Bechtel '03, for the best essay "on an approved subject connected with the philosophy of William James." Any student registered in Harvard College or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is eligible to compete for this prize. The essays, which be submitted, by March 1, may not exceed 10,000 words in length and the subject must be approved by the Chairman of the Division of Philosophy on or before February...