Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graduate School a Bowdoin prize of $300 was awarded to David Fleisher 2G, of Brooklyn, New York, in the fields of English, Fine Arts, and Music, for an essay entitled "Bacon's 'Essays' and Castiglione's 'Courtier'". G. E. Stead 1G and M. W. Eccles 4G earned honorable mention. In the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering, the award of $300 went to William Fausset Bruce, Ph.D. '31, of West Somerville, for an essay entitled "The Stereoiserism of Oximes." J. D. Squires 1G and E. S. Redford 2G both obtained honorable mention for their work in the fields...
...Poetry of Thomas Hardy" is the subject of the winning essay. Kahn is from New York City, was in Group III at the end of last year, and is now the part holder of a scholarship from the Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch bequest. He prepared at the Manual Training High School in New York City...
Anshen won Group II scholastic standing last June and is now the holder of part of the Thomas William Clarke scholarship. He lives in Brighton, and prepared for Harvard at Brookline High School. His essay topic was "Stained Glass Windows; A Study in Mediaeval Romanticism...
...observations with conviction, but with complete lack of sentiment, optimism, or pessimism, as far as Britain and her Empire is concerned. He has spent eleven years in the country interpreting the English mind for readers of the New York Herald-Tribune, and now he has produced a searching essay on the English which Americans should not pass up, and which the English should commit to memory in order to start building up a common foundation of understanding between the two people...
...they are at present constituted, divisionals loom as a major operation, which one approaches with a sort of desperation. The detailed part of these examinations ought to be given in the third year, and the Senior exams should be single (choice of several) essay questions on broad subjects of one's field. At any rate, they should not all be dropped like a guillotine at the end of the last year, to behead the student who has not developed a neck stiff enough to withstand such assaults. What the Senior examinations should alone determine is a man's fitness...