Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Planning Committee for unemployed graduates is sponsoring an essay contest with a trip to Europe as reward in an effort to discover some suitable unemployment relief plan for college alumni. Statistics show that only one out of eight of the 1933 ex-seniors will be able to find self supporting positions, while at the same time the means of many of those future unemployed are so depleted that they can not support themselves without jobs. They must either go on with their education, a course already made difficult for them by the University's failure, however unavoidable, to cooperate...
...essay on "Two Forgotten New England Reformers" by Bertha-Monica Stearns is perhaps the most important and generally appealing part of this issue of the Quarterly. In the persons of Mrs. Mary Gove Nichols and Dr. T. L. Nichols, Miss Stearns has found a more attractive aspect of the reforming intellectuals in 19th century America, an aspect which books like Gilbert Seldes' "The Stammering Century" have tended to cover up. The lives of these two New Englanders, veering sometimes towards faddisms, nevertheless possessed a consistent and admirable idealism and rose above the sordid dementia of most of the contemporary nostrums...
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