Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is an essay by Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., married last week (see p. 48). Subject: "The Use of Leisure." Excerpt: "Probably the thing from which I derived the most benefit in connection with The Five Arts* was the contact I had with outside speakers. . . . A day or so spent in the company of such men and women as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Thornton Wilder, Bertrand Russell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay are opportunities that few are fortunate enough to have...
...their bearing upon present, methods of admission to college and organization of the first-year curriculum. I am not concerned with the detailed requirements in any subject field nor would I ascribe superior value to any particular type of test or entrance examination. We need the evidence of the essay type as well as that of the more recent objective test. It takes more than one instrument to ascertain not only what a candidate knows and what mental capacity he has, but also to what extent he will use his knowledge and ability. The importance of the school record, which...
...Earl's latest best seller, The World in 2030, Mr. Haldane observed that a sort of mental telepathy must exist between his common head and the belted Earl's, since he recognized in no less than 44 passages ideas similar to the ones he had expressed in his essay of scientific prophecy Daedalus...
...President Hoover dropped work to go out behind the White House offices to be photographed with: 1) U. S. Civil Service Commissioners and staff; 2) newspaper association managers; 3) "Danish-Americans" en route to Denmark; 4) Pauline Lodge, Lakewood, Ohio, high-school girl, winner of the $500 Gorgas Memorial Essay Contest; 5) Bandmaster John Philip Sousa playing his new "Royal Welch Fusiliers" march...
...Negro Business League. Trained as secretary to Tuskegee's potent Principal Robert Russa Moton, Organizer Holsey is well able to handle his work. He has written numerous articles on the Negro in business. He also wrote "Learning How to be Black" for the American Mercury. Although in this essay he said, "At fifteen, I was fully conscious of the racial difference, and while I was sullen and resentful in my soul, I was beaten and knew it," his interest and perseverance in his work show no passive defeatism. When not at work, he likes dancing, theatres. Now in Manhattan...