Word: essayed
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Almost as hallowed a tradition as the butter pats on the Union ceiling and the tire swing at Winthrop, we've delighted test-taking basketcases with this essay every reading period since 1950. (That's 87 reading periods, by the way.) For 43 and a half years, The Crimson has guided its readers to success in the bluebook. Though the essay won the Dana Reed writing prize in 1951, it didn't please everybody. In 1962, a grader was irked enough to reply, and the two essays have been printed together ever since...
...stabilizing the faculty and making sure the best writing teachers don't enter Expos with one foot out the door. The new director should create an atmosphere that encourages experimentation, allowing star teaching talents like senior preceptor Gordon Harvey to innovate, and abolishing rigid requirements like the current four-essay rule...
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That leaves many frightened people wondering whether safety resides with the other extreme: arm everyone, and scare the criminals as much as the citizenry. In his essay "A Nation of Cowards" in The Public Interest, lawyer Jeffrey Snyder argues that individual dignity depends on a willingness to fight back against crime. Owning a gun, and mastering its use, becomes a duty of citizenship; an armed society becomes a safer one. In a community like Wichita, Kansas, where drive-by shootings hit a record high this year and local legislators are debating tighter gun laws, pro-gun activists argue that instead...