Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essay which progresses evenly and clearly, Mr. Chubb searches for the attractions that have allured the undergraduate in other fields and tries to obtain those attractions for scholarship. For example, athletic sports have more sociability and dramatic appeal to offer; why not transfer these to the intellectual field? Mr. Chubb follows out this idea more cleverly, perhaps, than practically. His scheme would really come down to this: he would like the scholastic victor to be carried from the gridiron of intellectual contest on the (figurative) shoulders of his comrades amid the overwhelming cheers of a crowded (symbolic) stadium! Mr. Chubb...
...Dunbar's essay, with more variety of style but less skill and general finish seeks help elsewhere. Amid random shots at present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities...
...Advocate Prize Contest for the best essay upon any subject of general University interest by an undergraduate has been won by R. W. Chubb '15, of St. Louis, Mo. with an essay on "How the leadership of the intellectual rather than the athletic student can be fostered." The second prize was won by D. E. Dunbar '13, of Springfield, with an essay on the subject: "How the intellectual curiosity of Harvard students may be stimulated." The first prize was $200 and the second...
...present issue begins rather brilliantly with an essay on "The Spirit of the Renaissance", by one G. S., clearly, almost exuberantly, conceived, and compactly expressed, but by ten pages too short; it ends with an editorial on "College Life" by the same gentleman, rather hazily thought out and very much too long. Between, lie a story or two, a charming imaginary letter of Horace to Maecenas by Mr. S. L. M. Barlow, a number of poems and a jaunty, not to say fresh, review of a new book on "Faust". The poems all have sincerity, imagination and force...
...play-reviews give real information. This department of the paper seems decidedly successful. It, together with the essay writing already spoken of, makes one wonder at the finality of the unexplained statement as to the Tri-Collegiate Literary Competition that "essays are necessarily excluded...