Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dutch stock (his grandfather changed his name from Bjorkegren). The eldest of six children, Arleigh found his life was paced by farm chores. A sister remembers: "When he was four years old, he was out in the fields leading the stacking horse" when the hay was harvested. In an essay on military training, written in grade school, young Burke said: "This training teaches one of the greatest problems of success: discipline . . . War methods change, but the necessity for discipline never changes." He entered Annapolis at 17, graduated 70th in the class of 1923, later earned a Master of Science degree...
...most elementary schools in all countries do, a French school in Cannes drummed up an essay project on the subject: "What I want to be when I grow up." Most significant paper was turned in by Pupil Pierre Thorez, 10, son of France's ailing, villa-dwelling Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. Wrote Pierre: "I want to become an admiral and command a fleet of battleships ... I would review the sailors while listening to music played by naval bands. I would wear feathers in my ceremonial hat and gold braid." It all sounded quite a bourgeois concept of an admiral...
Bowersock will receive two-thirds of the annual income of the Conant fund. The second prize went to Jonathan Kozol '58 for his essay. "The Scientific Attitude; its Place in Democracy and in Society...
Glen W. Bowersock '57 has been awarded the James Bryant Conant prize for an original scscientific essay, "Fundamental Ideas of Space and Time in the Special Theory of Relativity," by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Sanford A. Lakoff 2G has won a Bowdoin Prize of $400 for his essay "The Trial of J. Robert Oppenheimer." Other Bowdoin Prizes have already been awarded...