Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Essay," Mr. White, Emerson...
...Gang and the New Gang" has the framework of one of Thackeray's Roundabout papers. Mr. Lewis refers to his clever title several times in the first half of the essay, and then forgets about it. His analysis of American politics is an incorrect as his remarks on Leon Trotsky. He tries to be a little too smart, to be sound. He siezes on a few irrelevancies, and builds on them a general philosophy...
...tutorial instruction. History and Literature is again unlike any other field in having no written examinations for candidates for honors in the Senior year. A qualifying examination (identical with the general examination for Seniors) is given for Juniors in May. The Senior year is devoted to the honors essay -- to which the committee on degrees attaches much weight -- and to work in special subjects in preparation for an oral examination. An examination is given in the Sophomore year on reading in the ancient authors and one is given in the Junior year on the Bible and Shakspere...
...second part of the new policy will be the publication of one essay a month on some international question, in this case "Will War Destroy Civilization?" by Hoffman Nickerson '11. The winning Garrison Prize Poems for 1932-33, together with "Spring Songs", by C. L. Sulzberger '34, will also be included in this issue...
Since each item is the work of an individual press, variety is the keynote of the whole, and there are several instances of remarkable ingenuity in the adaption of format and typographic technique to the spirit of the text. The rendering of Lawrence Wroth's capable essay on Juan Ortiz, the first wood engraver to practice his are on the American continent, by the Southworth. Press is particularly apt in this respect...