Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ninth number of the Advocate will be out early Saturday morning. Besides the Prize Story and Prize Essay, it will contain an accurate and reliable criticism of the 'Varsity crew...
...Hamilton, '87. has written an essay on the "Reasons for the Coming of the Pilgrims" for the Old South prize. It will soon be published in book form...
...similar topics is excellent practice. Doubtless in every year Harvard produces much fairly readable stuff of this kind. In these compositions the author has put enough thought to make the grouping of facts, which are not his own, still so much the expression of his mind, that the essay is sincere and of worth. Yet of such work we see too little in the college papers...
...kind of composition which we slight most, is that in which a number of related facts are gathered, and put into intelligible form. It is commonly said that the man who does this sort of work in an historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors...
...essay goes on to say, that the boy who lays aside his reasoning powers, and takes without question the dictum of his teacher, is the one who learns to read and spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine...