Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handy Reference. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., University Sophomore William Fortune's $50 fine for fighting was reduced to $10 after the judge read his history essay, "The Use of Force in the Modern Social Society...
...Burr Hall's plush-backed seats are set, some people have claimed that examinations there would strain Harvard's keep-temptation to-a-minimum policy. But this danger is only present in courses whose exams require terse and short answers. Since final exams in most courses are of the essay type--it takes more than a quick wandering plance to gain any profit from a neighbor's essay--this objection is quite limited and easily overcome...
First prize of $100 went to David F. Wheeler 2G of Cambridge for his essay on "Art. Influence of Design Upon: An Essay on Finnezan's Wake." John L. Bishop 5G of Grays River, Washington, received second prize of $50 for his essay entitled "A Chinese Drama in Eighteenth Century Europe...
Carl E. Taylor 2PH., a student at the Harvard School of Public Health, won the $500 first prize in the Planned Parenthood League's essay contest...
...Lampoon-written prose, Michael Arlen's essay How to Tell a Good Movie from a Bad Movie points humorously to the fallacies in film reviews based on truisms such as: "All English movies are good movies" or "All Technicolor movies are bad movies." Mistrusting these truisms, Arlen builds his piece around his personal way of picking pictures the advice of ten-year old cousin Henry "who knows when to walk...