Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of Gen. Ed. Ahf is not to learn how to write "purple prose," to "sling bull," or fill pages with a quota of words, but to strengthen the student's grasp of his native tongue, to smooth the wrinkles in his writing technique. In short, it is to do what no course in humanities, or even literature can be expected to do that is to offer the majority of those who will never darken the doors of Warren House the opportunity of improving their writing ability during the first two semesters at Harvard. Joseph M. Cronin...
From Cuba, Author Ernest Hemingway wrote to 23 junior-high-school students of Louisville, Ky., thanking them for their kind words about his book The Old Man and the Sea: ". . . I wanted to write it for many years and finally did it instead of putting it off. Putting things off is about the worst thing you can do and I do plenty of it. If you ever need any advice from an expert on putting things off, I'm your man . . . You need to know almost all there is about your craft, or trade, or whatever you want...
...then, doctors have a case in which a patient has no memory for names at all-not even the names of close kin. It may get so bad that he forgets the names of common articles, so that when he wants a pen he will ask for "something to write with," though he can pick the right name out of a list. Nerve specialists have given this complaint a number of names; the University of Virginia's Dr. Cary Suter. who has studied it closely, likes "anomic aphasia" best...
Your editorial of February 17, asserting that Freshmen must write too many papers in their General Education courses, creates a false impression...
...hard to see how the "usual upper class load" can be determined. A single term paper in a middle-group course may involve more work than half a dozen short papers of the kind required in General Education A. Furthermore, if there is a disproportion between the amount of writing required of Freshmen and of upper classmen, it does not follow that the Freshmen write too much. Strong arguments can be made that the upper classmen should write more...