Word: essays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard College does not pretend to possess a perfect grading system. Essay type examinations cannot be evaluated with mathematical exactness, and the grader cannot be completely objective no matter how hard he may try to prevent his personal views from affecting the mark he assigns a blue book. But the number of complaints from students who felt they had been victimized by methods somewhat less than just indicates that unfairness in the grading system has not been reduced to the unavoidable minimum...
...last week Curtis announced that the magazine had hit its stride. Its new issue (March) was something to see, and the writing was no longer hey-look. It offered a huge (39-page) and handsome Mexican takeout, a cool appraisal of Atlantic City, an engaging Swiss essay, written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. Sales had bounced over 605,000, the biggest circulation a 50? magazine had ever reached in one year. Curtis was looking forward to the day when Holiday would even make money...
...ESSAY ON MORALS (204 pp.) - Philip Wylie-Rinehart...
...diatribes against contemporary life, but just as many are likely to feel that his magic "instinct" is largely a grab bag into which he pops anything he approves of-e.g., the human conscience, which he blandly describes as "the natural candor . . . of instinct." Most readers will find the Essay's philosophy half-baked...
...essay on the contemporary French fascist Charles Maurras is also an examination of the French school that connects Gallic tradition with purely Greek and Roman origins and abhors the "barbarian" influences of Anglo-Saxondom. The study of General De Gaulle (written when the Free French had their headquarters in London) has much to say about the traditional reluctance of the French to accept a leader whose feet are not actually on French soil. And in addition to his wealth of purely French material, Author Brogan draws constantly and easily on analogies and contrasts from British and U.S. history and characteristics...