Word: writer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announced by a committee of the Department of English," will this year be given for a poem on the subject, "Josiah Royce." Each poem should not exceed 50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed name...
...with astonishment that I read an article in the New York Times of Sunday last in which the writer claims that the rowing authorities of Yale have under consideration a proposal to change the distance of the annual race with Harvard in June from four to three miles. I may state that the article in question contains the first news that the Yale rowing authorities have had of the Yale rowing authorities have had of the proposed change. But the Times does not rest content with its Sunday article. In the Monday edition, under the heading of 'Comment on Current...
Each essay should bear a nome deplume or arbitrary sign which should be included in an accompanying letter giving the writer's real name, college, class and home address. Both letter and essay should reach H. C. Phillips, secretary Lake Mohonk Conference, 3531 Fourteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C., not later than March 15. Essays should be mailed flat...
...heard accusation that the conversation of Memorial hall and of other eating places frequented by members of the university is compounded solely of sports, women, and the weather, is extended by a writer in the "Dial" to cover all the conversational attempt of educated Americans. "Bring together a group of college men, graduates of the same institution, and what do they talk about?" he inquires. "The same things as the tired business men of theatrical disrepute, sport or women, business or politics in the littlest sense of the word...
Even admitting that American conversation consists chiefly of trivialities, it does not necessarily prove, as this writer appears to think it does, the triviality of our national character. He assigns a large share of the blame to the elective system of American colleges which have produced such a scattering of interests that a common ground for conversation no longer remains...