Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Eddy's Manning essay was on "Arsenic Elimination in the Reverberatory Refining of Native Copper." When the prices of copper and silver (which are often found in copper ores) are high, it is economic to separate the metals from intrusive materials by electrolysis. But when prices are as low as they are now (last week: copper, 7? per lb., and silver. 30? per oz.), copper mines and refineries must be shut down or copper reduction must be accomplished more cheaply. Professor Eddy pointed out ways of cheapening production...
...Alsop's Essay...
...With the essay of Mr. Alsop on Lawrence, Lewis, Eliot and Joyce, and the stories of Mr. Donaldson and Mr. Sulzberger, the Advocate plays admirably its part of affording the man interested in writing a chance to write, and the man interested in seeing what a Harvard undergraduate can write a chance to see. Mr. Alsop's critique bespeaks ability and care; it is readable and well-done. Whether one entirely agrees with his conclusions is in a sense unimportant. He has been, obviously, much influenced by the same forces which he believes led his subjects to their querulous, rebellious...
...listens to no cut-and-dried lectures on the art of writing or is burdened with no definite number of pages of a textbook to read. He attends two very informal lectures a week, at which Mr. Hersey discusses some "genre", the short story, poetry, one act plays, the essay, etc., not as short stories, poems, one-act plays, or essays but rather the mechanics of the writing of such "genres". Students who have an urge to write or are interested in writing will find in Mr. Hersey's course, not the opportunity for becoming writers, but rather the opportunity...
...this latter change is a noteworthy one. The Advocate has branched out into the field of provocative essay writing with a gusto that is encouraging and convincing. Casting a strict literary tradition aside she publishes in her current Spring number a thoughtful article that scrapes the sham off of the English Department and one that at the same time puts both modern architecture and the Harkness Hoot in their places. In fact, the Advocate has, in its conservative manner, gone "Hoot". Its editorial gives every indication that it intends to continue this newly established policy. The writing of essays...