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 of "Belgium." Each poem should not exceed fifty 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. The prize is open only to undergraduates of Harvard College. A copy of the prize poem must be deposited in the University Library by its author...
...Each essay should bear a nom de plume 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, (address, until December 1, 1914, Mohonk Lake, N. Y.; December 1, 1914, to April 1, 1915, 3531 Fourteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C.), not later than March 15, 1915. Essay should be mailed flat (not rolled)." For additional information address the Secretary of the Conference...
...became professor of agricultural chemistry at the Bussey Institution, where he remained until 1907, and after his first year there he became dean of the Institution. He continued there until his resignation from active work. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a writer Professor Storer was the author of notable scientific works including 'Dictionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Substances," "Manual of Inorganic Chemistry," "Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis," (both in co-operation with Dr. Charles W. Eliot '53), "Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry," "Bulletin of Bussey Institution," "Alloys...
...They must be able, and willing, to think simply, directly, and accurately. All the graces of an elevated style may be asked of the man who rises to be an editorial writer, a reviewer of books or of plays and pictures and music. But in the beginning the reporter must be content and must be able to state plain facts in a plain way. The young man who expects to enter journalism must teach himself to do this. Flights of speech are out of place in the crisp and concise recording of the everyday facts in the burning...
...University a place for comment on subjects of timely interest. Contributions are welcomed; but all do not necessarily appear; there are bound to be some which it seems unwise to publish. All communications must be signed with their author's name as a guarantee of sincerity. The writer of the aforementioned unsigned letter protests that men, if they must affix their names to their ideas, will cease to express their ideas, through fear of being answered with personal attacks. In one unfortunate instance this year a communication of a bitterly personal nature was published. The CRIMSON, however, plans to exclude...