Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...response to the popular demand for a solution to the eating problem which faces the University, the CRIMSON announces the opening of a prize essay competition on the subject of the gastronomic situation in its relation to the student body. By offering such an opportunity for men to express their sentiments on this vexed question, the CRIMSON hopes to elicit a number of constructive suggestions which will assist in its ultimate solution. The money for the prizes in this contest is being contributed jointly by the Student Council and the CRIMSON...
...competent judges, or even dangerous his task if he set out to contest the verdict of the judges. Combative originality or tame endorsement are his alternatives. But to the present reviewer it, is a positive pleasure to receive his September number of the "Harvard Advocate", replete with prize essay and poem, and graced by Dean Mayo's glance at "The Good Old Days", which is worthy of a prize--were such ever granted to University...
...spirit" of a great institution like Harvard, to present its spiritual and physical aspects of another date. To any one who would learn the technique, as well as to any one who would find the perspective of the Harvard he knows today, I may commend Mr. Mayo's charming essay...
...having read of the Harvard he knows and of the Harvard of an earlier time, and of John Harvard whose "School Abides, his testament", he is ready for the sterner stuff contained in Aswell's Bowdorn Prize essay, "This Modern Chaos Called Education." It is a cogent plea that Education, Philosophy, and Life be linked in an indissoluble bond. Teachers must make of their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though...
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - Barrie's glowing essay on charm admirably interpreted by Helen Hayes...