Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bulk of the undergraduate contributions are evenly divided between essay, sketch, picture, story, and verse. Mr. B. P. Clark's "Fancies" is an excellent example of the new freedom in verse that is opening up much inner spirit, even though it sacrifices part of the poet's charm. "The Copper Duke," by Robert G. Dort, has not enough atmosphere or excitement about it to make a banal invention into an exhilarating plot. Mr. Skinner's "Courtesy of War," a sketch of a French village in war time, has more cultured ease in the telling than the subject can stand...
...Dante Society offers an Annual Prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay by a student in any department of the University, or by a graduate of not more than three years' standing, on a subject drawn from the Life or Works of Dante. The competition is open to students and graduates of similar standing of any college or university in the United States...
...annual prize of forty dollars, from a fund established by James Gordon Bennett, of New York, is offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest...
There is encouragement for American scholarship in the recently published annual report of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. American Rhodes scholars at Oxford last year took five first honors in jurisprudence, and captured nine university prizes, among which were the Matthew Arnold prize for an English essay and the Oldham prize for a classical essay. In the classics in general their showing was less good than in other subjects. Outside the field of scholarship, they have done well in athletics, and--strangely enough--an American has been chosen for the first time to the presidency of the Union, which is regarded...
...other essay which particularly held my attention is one on "How Harvard News Becomes Distorted." With most entertaining examples, Mr. Kennedy shows us--but the space assigned me for reviewing this "Interesting" number of the Illustrated has come to an end; and you must read for yourself...