Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...melancholy Civil War music, again grouped by Conductor-Composer Richard Bales, stirs gallant ghosts and makes fine listening. The Grand Army starts off to war with a rousing quickstep, soon changes its tune to fit a war for which-as Historian Bruce Catton points out in an album essay-hardly any of the soldiers were prepared. The disillusion of the troops is powerfully clear in the campfire dirge, Tenting Tonight...
...said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast the U.S. is traveling along the road to commercial nuclear power, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Atomic Power...
...manuscripts, not quite art for art's sake or literature for literature's sake, seem to epitomize the joy of collecting. A Gutenberg Bible, the original manuscripts of Keats' Endymion, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Pope's Essay on Man, among other works, have traveled about the country with the drawings and illuminations in this magnificent and unconventional exhibition which circulate, to a wider audience, J.P. Morgan's gift to the public...
...juniors, and Social Relations professors teach junior and senior tutorial in their department. The English Department, in recent broad revisions, has increased the importance of tutorial in deciding Honors degrees. In the same announcement, however, it restricted Honors candidacy--and individual tutorial--to students who pass three hurdles: an essay in the sophomore year, and general examinations in the junior and senior years...
...Department will also institute three "competing hurdles" for Honors: a 4,000-word essay at the end of the sophomore year, a three-part General Examination at the end of the junior year, and a General Examination in Literary History in the senior year. All these changes will become effective with the Class...