Word: essayed
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Finley developed his all-consuming interest in literature and languages of the ancient Greek world at Exeter and in his senior year at Harvard won the Bowdoin Prize for an essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." A magna cum laude graduate. Finley continued his studies in Greece. Germany and France, where he read the Classics at the Sorbonne. Returning to Harvard, Finley received his Ph.D. in 1933 with a 250-page dissertation written entirely in Latin. He also began teaching that year...
Take the institution describes, The Harvard Book changes very little from year to year. Of the 108 essays and articles included, five have been written since Lexington High School honored its distinguished junior of 1977. One of the five-Kevin Starr's reflections in Walter Jackson Bate-is interesting, and another-Peter Gomes' sermonette on Commencement-rank's among the best chuncks of Harvardiana Two others, an appropriately short anthology of the wisdom of derek C Bok, and an official explanation of "What is Radcliffe" will be skipped over by all but the most ardent high scholars, and those...
...Essay on "The Metaphysics of War" [May 17] implies that were it not for the apocalyptic possibilities of nuclear technology, war might be thought of as an unpleasant necessity. Until the mid-19th century, slavery was regarded in the same way. We have outgrown slavery. We should also outgrow...
...Your Essay will remind Americans that their philosophical heritage should be reconsidered. In 1837 Emerson wrote, "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." America could renew itself with some of Emerson's idealism...
...Essay "The Mind in the Machine" [May 3], Roger Rosenblatt asks if "anyone but a handful of zealots and hysterics seriously believes that the human mind is genuinely imperiled by devices of its own manufacture." The answer is yes, and the clearest example is thermonuclear weapons...